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contraintuitive

contraintuitive is the alternative form of counterintuitive.

Meaning of counterintuitive

Adjective

counterintuitive (comparative more counterintuitive, superlative most counterintuitive)

  1. Contrary to intuition or common sense.
    • With the students who worked on drafts in class, a number of aspects of lexicography proved challenging and counterintuitive.2015, James Lambert, “Lexicography as a teaching tool: A Hong Kong case study”, in Lan Li, Jamie McKeown, Liming Liu, editors, Dictionaries and corpora: Innovations in reference science. Proceedings...

Origin of contraintuitive

From contra- + intuitive.

Questions about contraintuitive

What is contraintuitive the alternative form of?
Contraintuitive is the alternative form of counterintuitive.

Words near contraintuitive in the dictionary

  1. contraindications
  2. contraindicative
  3. contraindicator
  4. contraindicators
  5. contraindicatory
  6. contraintuitive
  7. contraire
  8. contraisolateral
  9. contraktnik
  10. contraktniki
  11. contraktniks

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