INTUITIVE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does intuitive mean? 

• INTUITIVE (adjective)
  The adjective INTUITIVE has 2 senses:

1. spontaneously derived from or prompted by a natural tendency

2. obtained through intuition rather than from reasoning or observation

  Familiarity information: INTUITIVE used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INTUITIVE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Spontaneously derived from or prompted by a natural tendency

Context example:

an intuitive revulsion

Similar:

self-generated; spontaneous (happening or arising without apparent external cause)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Obtained through intuition rather than from reasoning or observation

Synonyms:

intuitive; nonrational; visceral

Similar:

illogical; unlogical (lacking in correct logical relation)

Derivation:

intuit (know or grasp by intuition or feeling)

 Context examples 

It is what would be obtained if the distance between two points were measured with a ruler: the "intuitive" idea of distance.

(Euclidean Distance Measurement, NCI Thesaurus)

I knew, by instinct, how the matter stood, before St. John had said another word; but I cannot expect the reader to have the same intuitive perception, so I must repeat his explanation.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

A group of astronomers from Australia and China have built their “intuitive and accurate three-dimensional picture” by mapping the so-called “classical Cepheids.”

(Scientists Say Milky Way Is Warped & Twisted Not Flat, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

You may have vivid, prophetic dreams or feel highly intuitive about certain people that are coming into your life.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

The main contributions of the design produced by the UGR include its compact size and the programming of an Android app that enables it to be used by non-specialists via an intuitive menu.

(Scientists design platform to conduct chemical analysis using a smartphone, University of Granada)

While this might seem intuitive, a new modeling study by a NOAA climate scientist and partners has quantified how historical conversion of native forests to cropland has influenced the frequency of hot and dry summers in the mid-latitudes of the United States and Europe.

(Forests minimize severe heat waves, NOAA)

The NCI Cancer Therapy Evaluation Program (CTEP) Simplified Disease Classification (SDC), a three level hierarchy of Category, Sub-Category, and coding Term intended to provide an intuitive classification of neoplastic diseases to meet the needs of CTEP while still allowing reporting based on the Medical Dictionary for Drug Regulatory Reporting (MedDRA) terminology.

(NCI CTEP Simplified Disease Classification Terminology, NCI Thesaurus)

I believe it to be an intuitive discernment, a quick but never-failing power of judgment, a penetration into the causes of things, unequalled for clearness and precision; add to this a facility of expression and a voice whose varied intonations are soul-subduing music.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

You are intuitive and right on target with that method.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)