intuitive

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

• IPA^(key): /ɪnˈtjuːɪtɪv/

intuitive (comparative more intuitive, superlative most intuitive)

1. Spontaneous, without requiring conscious thought.
   • 2012 January 1, Steven Sloman, “The Battle Between Intuition and Deliberation”, in American Scientist‎, 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.

• nonintuitive
• counterintuitive

• intuition
• intuit

intuitive (plural intuitives)

1. One who has (especially parapsychological) intuition.

intuitive

1. feminine singular of intuitif

intuitive

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

intuitive

1. Feminine plural of adjective intuitivo.

intuitive

1. definite singular of intuitiv
2. plural of intuitiv

intuitive

1. definite singular of intuitiv
2. plural of intuitiv