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US
/ˌɪnˈtuətɪv/
]
[ UK /ɪntjˈuːɪtˌɪv/ ]
[ UK /ɪntjˈuːɪtˌɪv/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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spontaneously derived from or prompted by a natural tendency
an intuitive revulsion - obtained through intuition rather than from reasoning or observation
How To Use intuitive In A Sentence
- It is not only our senses, but our very intuitive faculties that cease to provide us with the necessary adaptive knowledge.
- His respect for produce runs deep, which helps explain what makes him an intuitive, natural chef. Times, Sunday Times
- I only played three carefully considered notes with intuitive regard to choice of rhythm, tempo, dynamics - using a poignant interval, the minor sixth resolving to the perfect fifth.
- Place may be an immediate, pre-conceptual experience, and its knowledge then is intuitive rather than discursive.
- Many mathematicians are musical and many musicians have good intuitive understanding of maths. Times, Sunday Times
- An intuitive friend is a matchmaker. The Sun
- Avoid making intuitively obvious but unfounded assertions.
- If you are single, that changes fast when your most intuitive friend does some subtle matchmaking. The Sun
- Charles Darwin's core claim is that the apparent design we intuitively observe in nature is an illusion that can be explained by mindless, purposeless, mechanistic and accidental processes.
- The term presentiment suggests a sense of foreboding, a vague feeling of danger, an intuitive hunch that something not quite right is about to unfold. ENTANGLED MINDS