intuitive

Speech parts

1. intuitive - Noun

2. intuitive - Adjective

3. intuitive - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Seeing clearly; as, an intuitive view; intuitive vision.

Knowing, or perceiving, by intuition; capable of knowing without deduction or reasoning.

Received. reached, obtained, or perceived, by intuition; as, intuitive judgment or knowledge; -- opposed to deductive.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

natural sharp automatic intelligent spontaneous keen gut shrewd visceral instinctive discerning perceptive insightful nonrational instinctual
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Antonyms

daft half-baked slow wooden logical thick
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Phrases with the word

intuitive flaw intuitive art intuitive imagination intuitive abstraction intuitive faculty giving awareness intuitive counselor

Examples

The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift. Albert Einstein

The especial genius of women I believe to be electrical in movement, intuitive in function, spiritual in tendency. Margaret Fuller

The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days. Laozi

Physics is essentially an intuitive and concrete science. Mathematics is only a means for expressing the laws that govern phenomena. Albert Einstein

A new idea comes suddenly and in a rather intuitive way, but intuition is nothing but the outcome of earlier intellectual experience. Albert Einstein

This is the essence of intuitive heuristics: when faced with a difficult question, we often answer an easier one instead, usually without noticing the substitution. Daniel Kahneman

Close letter words and terms

intuitionistic logic intuitionistically intuitionless intuitive ability intuitive abstraction intuitive art