intuitive

Spontaneous, without requiring conscious thought.

Adjective

  1. 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...
    • These impressions [of potential papal candidates], collected from interviews with a variety of church officials and experts, may influence the very intuitive, often unpredictable process the cardinals will use to decide...
  2. Easily understood or grasped by intuition.
    • Designing software with an intuitive interface can be difficult.
  3. 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:

Origin

Borrowed from Middle French intuitif, from Medieval Latin intuitivus, from Latin intueri.

Forms

more intuitive most intuitive

Antonyms

unintuitive nonintuitive counterintuitive

Related

intuition intuit

Derived

contraintuitive intuitive eating intuitively intuitiveness intuitivism intuitivist intuitivity

Noun

  1. One who has (especially parapsychological) intuition.

Forms

intuitives