intuitive
/ɪnˈtjuːɪtɪv//ɪnˈt(j)uɪtɪv/
intuitive adjective: spontaneous, without requiring conscious thought.
Adjective
intuitive (comparative more intuitive, superlative most intuitive)
- Spontaneous, without requiring conscious thought.
- The intuitive response turned out to be correct.
- Libertarian paternalism is the view that, because the way options are presented to citizens affects what they choose, society should present options in a way that “nudges” our intuitive selves to make choices that are more consistent with what our more deliberative selves would have chosen if they...2012 January, Steven Sloman, “The Battle Between Intuition and Deliberation”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 1, archived from the original on 08 Jan 2012, page 74
- Easily understood or grasped by intuition.
- Designing software with an intuitive interface can be difficult.
- Having a marked degree of intuition.
- I'm real intuitive, everyone is, we're just conditioned not to trust it.2019, Justin Blackburn, The Bisexual Christian Suburban Failure Enlightening Bipolar Blues, page 21
Noun
intuitive (plural intuitives)
- One who has (especially parapsychological) intuition.
intuitive meaning in Tamil, Marathi, Urdu and Bengali
intuitive in Tamil
- இயலுணர்வுடன், இயல்புணர்வுடன், உள்ளுணர்வுடன், உள்ளுணர்வால் வரும்
intuitive in Marathi
- अंतर्ज्ञानी, अंतर्ज्ञानात्मक, अंतर्ज्ञानपूर्ण
intuitive in Urdu
- الہامی, وجدانی
intuitive in Bengali
- স্বজ্ঞাত
More languagesFewer languages
- intuitive in Malayalam
- അവബോധജന്യമായ, സഹജജ്ഞാനജന്യ, സ്വതജ്ഞാനമുള്ള, സഹജജ്ഞാനോപലബ്ധ
- intuitive in Kannada
- ಅಂತರ್ಬೋಧೆಯ, ಅರ್ಥಗರ್ಭಿತ
- intuitive in Gujarati
- અંતર્જ્ઞાની, સાહજિક
- intuitive in Odia
- ସ୍ବଜ୍ଞାପରାଯ଼ଣ
- intuitive in Nepali
- अन्तर्ज्ञानात्मक
- intuitive in Tagalog
- loob-alamin
- intuitive in Arabic
- بَدِيهِيٌّ badīhiyyun
- intuitive in Indonesian
- intuitif
- intuitive in Persian
- شهودی šohudi
Examples of intuitive in a sentence
- He proved it formally but gave his students no intuitive feel for the matter.
- The two terms are arithmetically equivalent, but they are not equally intuitive regarding what phenomenon they represent in the real world.
- The concept of homotopy represents a formalisation of the intuitive idea of a smooth deformation of one curve into another.
Antonyms of intuitive
Forms of intuitive
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| comparative | more intuitive |
| superlative | most intuitive |
| Noun | |
| plural | intuitives |
Origin of intuitive
Borrowed from Middle French intuitif, from Medieval Latin intuitivus, from Latin intueri.
Words formed from intuitive
Questions about intuitive
- What does intuitive mean?
- Intuitive means spontaneous, without requiring conscious thought.
- What is intuitive in Tamil?
- Intuitive in Tamil is இயலுணர்வுடன், இயல்புணர்வுடன், உள்ளுணர்வுடன். See Intuitive meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is intuitive?
- Intuitive can be an adjective or a noun.
- How do you pronounce intuitive?
- Intuitive is pronounced /ɪnˈtjuːɪtɪv/ (UK).
Words near intuitive in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: intuitive (page history and authors); intuitive (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); intuitive (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); intuitive (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); intuitive (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); intuitive (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); intuitive (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); intuitive (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); intuitive (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); intuitive (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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