Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Of, relating to, or arising from intuition.
- adj. Known or perceived through intuition. See Synonyms at instinctive.
- adj. Possessing or demonstrating intuition.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Perceiving directly, without a medium, vicarious representation, symbol, or phenomenon; perceiving the object immediately as it exists.
- Pertaining to a knowledge (especially, but not exclusively, an immediate knowledge) of a thing as existent.
- Not determined by other cognitions; not discursive; of the nature of a first premise; immediate; self-evident; reached without reasoning by an inexplicable and unconscious process of thought.
- Presenting an object as an individual image; not general.
Wiktionary
- adj. spontaneous, without requiring conscious thought
- adj. easily understood or grasped by intuition
- adj. having a marked degree of intuition
- n. One who has (especially parapsychological) intuition.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Seeing clearly
- adj. Knowing, or perceiving, by intuition; capable of knowing without deduction or reasoning.
- adj. Received, reached, obtained, or perceived, by intuition; ; -- opposed to
deductive .
WordNet 3.0
- adj. obtained through intuition rather than from reasoning or observation
- adj. spontaneously derived from or prompted by a natural tendency
Examples
“Although the phrase intuitive eating is commonplace now, keep in mind that it wasn't at the time.”
The Huffington Post: Dr. Susan Albers: 5 Intriguing Facts About Intuitive Eating
“Christensen argues that hospitals should focus primarily on what he calls intuitive medicine, the process of figuring out what's wrong with a patient.”
“You have to play with the melody just a bit to adapt it to singing, permitting it to breath and stretch in intuitive ways, and the only way to do this is to experiment with it a bit until it sounds inevitable and correct.”
“ASTRO File Manager does a great job of letting you navigate files on your SD card and accessible internal memory, sure, but it also has its own built-in task killer, backs up applications, can send files as email attachments (not all that easy or intuitive from the mail client, for some reason), and much more.”
“And yet, for some of us, the combination makes a certain intuitive sense …”
“Intuitive-Projective Faith: The first stage we call intuitive/projective faith.”
Fully Human, Fully Divine: James Fowler and Evelyn Underhill
“Aware as in intuitive: I have a sense of what people are feeling which I guess is one of the things that makes me a pretty good nurse.”
“I'm not sure that this site in intuitive, but it is interesting.”
Creating, Managing & Pres. Dig. Assets: Tibetan & Himalayan Digital Library
“There's also Young's greatest intangible that can't be measured at any combine: Young might lead this draft class in intuitive upside.”
USATODAY.com - Young's talents, perceived shortcomings fuel great draft debate
“Thus the mind perceives, that an arch of a circle is less than the whole circle, as clearly as it does the idea of a circle: and this, therefore, as has been said, I call intuitive knowledge; which is certain, beyond all doubt, and needs no probation, nor can have any; this being the highest of all human certainty.”
Lists
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Artistic words
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The bang, the cannonade,
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Tweets
Looking for tweets for intuitive.
qroqqa I have just discovered a completely new construction. Faced with the clause 'The firm is intuitive to our needs', I thought first, 'That's not English', and second, 'How do we say that in English?' I then asked my respected colleague and she confirmed that it wasn't correct.
But Google shows about 150 000 hits for "is intuitive to * needs", which are robust (they don't go away as you page through). I was about to accept it as a mere quirk that I'd never encountered this construction before. Then I added site:UK to the search. That brings it down to eight (8) hits, rather than the expected ten to fifteen thousand. No wonder I'd never heard it before. Jun 15, 2010