intuitive

[ in-too-i-tiv, -tyoo- ]
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adjective
  1. perceiving directly by intuition without rational thought, as a person or the mind.

  2. perceived by, resulting from, or involving intuition: intuitive knowledge.

  1. having or possessing intuition: an intuitive person.

  2. capable of being perceived or known by intuition.

  3. easy to understand or operate without explicit instruction: an intuitive design;an intuitive interface.

Origin of intuitive

1
From the Medieval Latin word intuitīvus, dating back to 1585–95. See intuition, -ive

Other words for intuitive

Other words from intuitive

  • in·tu·i·tive·ly, adverb
  • in·tu·i·tive·ness, noun
  • non·in·tu·i·tive, adjective
  • non·in·tu·i·tive·ness, noun
  • qua·si-in·tu·i·tive, adjective
  • un·in·tu·i·tive, adjective

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How to use intuitive in a sentence

  • In some intuitive way, surviving probably from the somnambulism, she knew or guessed as much as I knew.

    Three More John Silence Stories | Algernon Blackwood
  • So strong is the tendency to ascribe an intuitive character to judgments which are mere inferences, and often false ones.

  • Now Intelligence possesses them by thought, a thought which is not discursive (but intuitive).

    Plotinos: Complete Works, v. 3 | Plotinos (Plotinus)
  • In other words, the technician is the man who invents or preserves labels to be pasted on the intuitive practices of his art.

    Seeing Things at Night | Heywood Broun
  • One of his precious ideals citadeling womanhood crumbled with intuitive rapidity.

    Mountain | Clement Wood

British Dictionary definitions for intuitive

intuitive

/ (ɪnˈtjuːɪtɪv) /


adjective
  1. resulting from intuition: an intuitive awareness

  2. of, characterized by, or involving intuition

Derived forms of intuitive

  • intuitively, adverb
  • intuitiveness, noun

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