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unintuitive

unintuitive adjective: not intuitive, not easily graspable by intuition.

Adjective

unintuitive (comparative more unintuitive, superlative most unintuitive)

  1. Not intuitive, not easily graspable by intuition
  2. In particular, counterintuitive; counter to what one's intuition expects.

Forms of unintuitive

comparativemore unintuitive
superlativemost unintuitive

Origin of unintuitive

From un- + intuitive.

Words formed from unintuitive

Questions about unintuitive

What does unintuitive mean?
Unintuitive means not intuitive, not easily graspable by intuition.
What part of speech is unintuitive?
Unintuitive is an adjective.

Words near unintuitive in the dictionary

  1. unintrusive
  2. unintrusively
  3. unintrusiveness
  4. unintrusted
  5. unintubated
  6. unintuitive
  7. unintuitively
  8. unintuitiveness
  9. uninuclear
  10. uninucleate
  11. uninucleated

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