Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of, relating to, or arising from intuition: synonym: instinctive.
- adjective Possessing or demonstrating intuition.
- adjective Easily understood and simple to use.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Perceiving directly, without a medium, vicarious representation, symbol, or phenomenon; perceiving the object immediately as it exists.
- Pertaining to a knowledge (especially, but not exclusively, an immediate knowledge) of a thing as existent.
- Not determined by other cognitions; not discursive; of the nature of a first premise; immediate; self-evident; reached without reasoning by an inexplicable and unconscious process of thought.
- Presenting an object as an individual image; not general.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Seeing clearly
- adjective Knowing, or perceiving, by intuition; capable of knowing without deduction or reasoning.
- adjective Received, reached, obtained, or perceived, by intuition; ; -- opposed to
deductive .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
spontaneous , without requiringconscious thought - adjective easily understood or grasped by
intuition - adjective having a marked degree of intuition
- noun One who has (especially
parapsychological )intuition .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective obtained through intuition rather than from reasoning or observation
- adjective spontaneously derived from or prompted by a natural tendency
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Examples
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Although the phrase intuitive eating is commonplace now, keep in mind that it wasn't at the time.
Dr. Susan Albers: 5 Intriguing Facts About Intuitive Eating Dr. Susan Albers 2012
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Although the phrase intuitive eating is commonplace now, keep in mind that it wasn't at the time.
Dr. Susan Albers: 5 Intriguing Facts About Intuitive Eating Dr. Susan Albers 2012
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Although the phrase intuitive eating is commonplace now, keep in mind that it wasn't at the time.
Dr. Susan Albers: 5 Intriguing Facts About Intuitive Eating Dr. Susan Albers 2012
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Although the phrase intuitive eating is commonplace now, keep in mind that it wasn't at the time.
Dr. Susan Albers: 5 Intriguing Facts About Intuitive Eating Dr. Susan Albers 2012
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Although the phrase intuitive eating is commonplace now, keep in mind that it wasn't at the time.
Dr. Susan Albers: 5 Intriguing Facts About Intuitive Eating Dr. Susan Albers 2012
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Although the phrase intuitive eating is commonplace now, keep in mind that it wasn't at the time.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Dr. Susan Albers 2012
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Although the phrase intuitive eating is commonplace now, keep in mind that it wasn't at the time.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Dr. Susan Albers 2012
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Christensen argues that hospitals should focus primarily on what he calls intuitive medicine, the process of figuring out what's wrong with a patient.
Forbes.com: News 2011
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Christensen argues that hospitals should focus primarily on what he calls intuitive medicine, the process of figuring out what's wrong with a patient.
Forbes.com: News 2011
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Christensen argues that hospitals should focus primarily on what he calls intuitive medicine, the process of figuring out what's wrong with a patient.
Forbes.com: News David Whelan 2011
qroqqa commented on the word intuitive
I have just discovered a completely new construction. Faced with the clause 'The firm is intuitive to our needs', I thought first, 'That's not English', and second, 'How do we say that in English?' I then asked my respected colleague and she confirmed that it wasn't correct.
But Google shows about 150 000 hits for "is intuitive to * needs", which are robust (they don't go away as you page through). I was about to accept it as a mere quirk that I'd never encountered this construction before. Then I added site:UK to the search. That brings it down to eight (8) hits, rather than the expected ten to fifteen thousand. No wonder I'd never heard it before.
June 15, 2010