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intuitive
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Word definitions for intuitive in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. spontaneous, without requiring conscious thought. n. One who has (especially parapsychological) intuition.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADVERB more ▪ This is why the feminine nature is generally more intuitive and sensitive. ▪ Our culture needs more right-brain qualities, needs to be more intuitive , conceptual, synthesizing, and artistic. ▪ The eastern ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Intuitive \In*tu"i*tive\, a. [Cf. F. intuitif.] Seeing clearly; as, an intuitive view; intuitive vision. Knowing, or perceiving, by intuition; capable of knowing without deduction or reasoning. Whence the soul Reason receives, and reason is her being, Discursive, ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1640s, from Middle French intuitif or directly from Medieval Latin intuitivus , from intuit- , past participle stem of intueri "look at, consider" (see intuition ). Related: Intuitively ; intuitiveness .
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. spontaneously derived from or prompted by a natural tendency; "an intuitive revulsion" obtained through intuition rather than from reasoning or observation [syn: nonrational , visceral ]
Usage examples of intuitive.
Not, therefore, excited by vanity, but sustained by self-respect, by an overpowering feeling that he owed it to himself and the opinions he held, to show to the world that they had not been lightly adopted and should not be lightly laid aside, Bentinck rose, long past the noon of night, at the end of this memorable debate, to undertake an office from which the most successful and most experienced rhetoricians of Parliament would have shrunk with intuitive discretion.
The thought of involving Hong with the chops frightened me for some reason, an intuitive reason.
Most men recognize this first contraction as the point of ejaculatory inevitability and take this as an intuitive signal to increase frictional massage of the frenulum and glans and tighten the grip on the base and shaft.
Unpractised in business, and not gifted with that intuitive quickness which supplies experience and often baffles it, Ratcliffe Armine, who had not quitted the domestic hearth even for the purposes of education, was yet fortunate enough to possess a devoted friend: and this was Glastonbury, his tutor, and confessor to his mother.
All the natural laws that man feels he has discovered are intuitive or intellectual reflections of our physical mind and thought, discerning limited aspects of this great and simple law of causality, polarity and differentiation.
With the spawning of the Osmia, Fabre throws a fresh and unexpected light on the intuitive knowledge of instinct.
Even with their aid it was a matter of unremitting labor in which Kennedy used all his intuitive skill, his hard-won knowledge, Penza his trained engineering ability.
Vaguely he seemed to understand that, in that great new land of the West, in the open-air, healthy life of the ranches, where the conditions of earning a livelihood were of the easiest, refinement among the younger women was easily to be found--not the refinement of education, nor culture, but the natural, intuitive refinement of the woman, not as yet defiled and crushed out by the sordid, strenuous life-struggle of overpopulated districts.
He was a Jinxian, short and wide and bull-strong: a topflight computer-programmer with an intuitive knack for asking the right questions when everyone else has been asking the wrong ones and blowing expensive circuits in their iron idiots.
Thus fortified by special knowledge, he had in the past been able to plan lower-step work with the sometimes intuitive insights gained from his unpublicized private investigation.
Instead of the parallelogram of forces following from the parallelogram of movements, and the entire science of dynamics from that of kinematics, our very faculty of thinking in kinematic concepts is the evolutionary product of our previously acquired intuitive experience of the dynamic order of the world.
A new approach, called a spatial database engine, creates intuitive objects from standard geospatial databases and uses commercial databases to add attributes to the objects.
Therefore, clairvoyant perceptions of this mind level often come as flashes of insight, or inward perception - as indeed do intuitive and intellectual insights - rather than as a continual ability to read the inner mind patterns.
He reminded himself that expert, full-spectrum prisms had a reputation for being unusually intuitive and perceptive.
These are such basic and intuitive properties of how the world works that we hardly take note of them.