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counter-intuitive

counter-intuitive is the alternative spelling 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...

Forms of counter-intuitive

comparativemore counter-intuitive
superlativemost counter-intuitive

Questions about counter-intuitive

What is counter-intuitive the alternative spelling of?
Counter-intuitive is the alternative spelling of counterintuitive.

Words near counter-intuitive in the dictionary

  1. counter-intention
  2. counter-intentions
  3. counter-internationalism
  4. counter-interpretation
  5. counter-interpretations
  6. counter-intuitive
  7. counter-Koranic
  8. counter-liberal
  9. counter-loan
  10. counter-loans
  11. counter-magic

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