intuitive

[ in-too-i-tiv, -tyoo- ]

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.

   Synonyms: natural, inborn, innate

3. having or possessing intuition:

   an intuitive person.

4. capable of being perceived or known by intuition.
5. easy to understand or operate without explicit instruction:

   an intuitive design;

   an intuitive interface.

intuitive

/ ɪnˈtjuːɪtɪv /

adjective

1. resulting from intuition

   an intuitive awareness

2. of, characterized by, or involving intuition

Derived Forms

• inˈtuitiveness, noun
• inˈtuitively, adverb

Other Words From

• 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

Word History and Origins

Origin of intuitive¹

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

Example Sentences

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From Search Engine Watch

This is useful because hunting for this information on the state’s website yourself may not be as easy or intuitive as you’d hoped.

From Popular-Science

It seems intuitive now—of course that would be the most effective.

From Fortune

This allows us to begin to make sense of how I might have intuitive access to the goal-directed nature of Reality.

From Nautilus

He seems to have an intuitive sense that all of these things are connected to the passage of time, and the way it expands and contracts phenomenologically.

From Vox

It seemed gratuitous and counter-intuitive in a story that had already inflicted more than enough suffering.

From The Daily Beast

Playing the foul-mouthed bad character will become as predictable and counter-intuitive as a playing a thousand Joeys.

From The Daily Beast

More than any other media proprietor, Rupert Murdoch had an intuitive revelation about the value of news as a commodity.

From The Daily Beast

He began painting what he would call “intuitive abstractions,” and “cosmic cubism.”

From The Daily Beast

She is a woman with strong, provocative, and deceptively intuitive opinions.

From The Daily Beast

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

From Project Gutenberg

So strong is the tendency to ascribe an intuitive character to judgments which are mere inferences, and often false ones.

From Project Gutenberg

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

From Project Gutenberg

In other words, the technician is the man who invents or preserves labels to be pasted on the intuitive practices of his art.

From Project Gutenberg

One of his precious ideals citadeling womanhood crumbled with intuitive rapidity.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• emotional
• innate
• perceptive
• spontaneous
• visceral