intuitive

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪnˈtjuːɪtɪv/

Adjective

intuitive (comparative more intuitive, superlative most intuitive)

1. Spontaneous, without requiring conscious thought.
   • 2012 January, Steven Sloman, “The Battle Between Intuition and Deliberation”, in American Scientist‎^[1], volume 100, number 1, page 74:

     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 more consistent with what our more deliberative selves would have chosen if they were in control.

   • 2013 February 16, Laurie Goodstein, “Cardinals Size Up Potential Candidates for New Pope”, NYTimes.com:

     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 who should lead the world’s largest church.

   The intuitive response turned out to be correct.

2. Easily understood or grasped by intuition.

   Designing software with an intuitive interface can be difficult.

3. Having a marked degree of intuition.

Antonyms

• unintuitive
• nonintuitive
• counterintuitive

Related terms

• intuition
• intuit

Translations

automatic, without requiring conscious thought

• Belarusian: інтуіты́ўны (intuitýŭny), інтуіцы́йны (intuicýjny)
• Bulgarian: интуитивен (bg) (intuitiven)
• Catalan: intuïtiu
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 直覺的／直觉的 (zh), 直觉的 (zh) (zhíjué de)

• Czech: intuitivní
• Finnish: intuitiivinen (fi), vaistonvarainen
• French: intuitif (fr)
• Galician: intuitivo m
• German: intuitiv (de)
• Greek: διαισθητικός (el) (diaisthitikós)
• Hebrew: אינטואיטיבי
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• Italian: intuitivo (it)
• Occitan: intuïtiu
• Polish: intuicyjny (pl)
• Portuguese: intuitivo (pt)
• Russian: интуити́вный (ru) (intuitívnyj)
• Spanish: intuitivo (es)
• Swedish: intuitiv (sv), reflexmässig
• Tagalog: loob-alamin
• Turkish: sezgili (tr), sezgisel (tr)
• Ukrainian: інтуїти́вний (intujitývnyj)

Noun

intuitive (plural intuitives)

1. One who has (especially parapsychological) intuition.

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French

Adjective

intuitive

1. feminine singular of intuitif

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German

Adjective

intuitive

1. inflection of intuitiv:
   1. strong/mixed nominative/accusative feminine singular
   2. strong nominative/accusative plural
   3. weak nominative all-gender singular
   4. weak accusative feminine/neuter singular

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Italian

Adjective

1. (deprecated template usage) Feminine plural of adjective intuitivo.

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Norwegian Bokmål

Adjective

1. definite singular of intuitiv
2. plural of intuitiv

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Adjective

1. definite singular of intuitiv
2. plural of intuitiv