counter-intuitive
Adjective
Meaning
counter-intuitive (comparative more counter-intuitive, superlative most counter-intuitive)
Alternative spelling of counterintuitive
Examples
The quantum theory of parallel universes is not the problem, it is the solution. It is not some troublesome, optional interpretation emerging from arcane theoretical considerations. It is the explanation - the only one that is tenable - of a remarkable and counter-intuitive reality.
There is something intrinsically upside down and counter-intuitive in the relationship between money and happiness.
Grace is thickly counter-intuitive. It feels risky and unfair. It's dangerous and disorderly. It wrestles control out of our hands. It is wild and unsettling. It turns everything that makes sense to us upside-down and inside-out.
Analysis Hilbert's paradox is a veridical paradox : it leads to a counter-intuitive result that is provably true.
All this makes it entirely counter-intuitive to see the President as fearful and weak.
Because of this counter-intuitive arrangement, light must first pass through and around the ganglion cells and through the thickness of the retina, (including its capillary vessels, not shown) before reaching the rods and cones.