Intuitive
/ɪnˈt(j)uɪtɪv/ adj, noun
adj, noun ·Moderate ·High school level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 One who has (especially parapsychological) intuition.
Adjective
- 1 Spontaneous, without requiring conscious thought.
"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.
"I'm real intuitive, everyone is, we're just conditioned not to trust it."
Adjective
- 1 obtained through intuition rather than from reasoning or observation wordnet
- 2 spontaneously derived from or prompted by a natural tendency wordnet
Example
More examples"There is a second way to define the Gabriel-Roiter measure which may be more intuitive."
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French intuitif, from Medieval Latin intuitivus, from Latin intueri.