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Counterintuitive

//ˌkaʊntəɹɪnˈtuɪtɪv// adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Contrary to intuition or common sense.

    "With the students who worked on drafts in class, a number of aspects of lexicography proved challenging and counterintuitive."

Adjective
  1. 1
    contrary to what common sense would suggest wordnet

Etymology

From counter- + intuitive. Coined by Noam Chomsky in 1955 as “counter-intuitive”.

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