Definitions
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- adj. Not intuitive.
Etymologies
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Examples
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“It’s kind of nonintuitive for a New York Times columnist to embrace this [gaming] world and the reason is essentially — I spent a lot of my time trying to get Americans to care about issues that are a long way away, that may not seem to matter about them, whether it’s global poverty or disease or genocide or sex trafficking or whatever,” Mr. Kristof told the crowd.
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It turns out that the long-tail theory, while true, has a nonintuitive corollary: Aggregators are the ones who benefit most from all that choice.
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If they turn their software into unstable bloatware that is nonintuitive to use, they will create an opportunity for someone else, just as Microsoft did for Linux on servers. —
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The advanced search must be used to accomplish this and it is nonintuitive for a novice user.
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"This isn't counterintuitive; this is more like nonintuitive," said Andrew Sterman during a recent lesson as he plucked his oud, trying to repeat by ear what Mr. Shaheen improvised on his instrument.
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And the same thing happened in sort of a nonintuitive way when we were talking about SARS and when we were talking about avian flu.
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The tax rules governing IRAs are intricate, nonintuitive, and arcane.
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The Negotiator's driving system also beat the PackBot's, which at the time used two hockey-puck-like discs mounted on a console — a nonintuitive and complicated setup.
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Windows 3. 1's nonintuitive "program manager" is replaced by a cheerful "start" button that leads to a series of menus to guide you to programs.
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Now, the idea of ensuring privacy by using keys that were exchanged totally in the open was completely nonintuitive, and on the face of it, bizarre.
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