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intuitivein‧tu‧i‧tive /ɪnˈtjuːətɪv $ -ˈtuː-, -ˈtjuː-/ adjective - Great novelists have an intuitive understanding of the workings of human emotions.
- Macelo's style of management is intuitive and informal.
- She had an intuitive ability to size up people and their capabilities.
- Women are supposed to be more intuitive than men, but I don't know if that's true.
using instinct rather than knowledge► instinctive based on instinct rather than on knowledge or thought: · He's considered a smart, instinctive politician.· His instinctive reaction was to duck when he heard the shot, even though he knew it was pointless.· White jazz seemed old and intellectual, whereas black jazz was vital, swinging, instinctive. ► intuitive an intuitive understanding, judgement, or idea is completely based on feelings, not on facts or reasons, but is still correct: · Great novelists have an intuitive understanding of the workings of human emotions.· She had an intuitive ability to size up people and their capabilities.· Women are supposed to be more intuitive than men, but I don't know if that's true. ADVERB► more· This is why the feminine nature is generally more intuitive and sensitive.· Our culture needs more right-brain qualities, needs to be more intuitive, conceptual, synthesizing, and artistic.· The eastern journey is more intuitive, open and capable of holding contradictory concepts without confusion. NOUN► sense· He had this intuitive sense of what the viewer wanted.· That learning is a powerful response to an environment of instability and change makes intuitive sense.· Experience, wisdom, an intuitive sense of when and how to act.· Burke will not accept the notion that taste is some separate faculty of the mind, some sixth, intuitive sense. 1an intuitive idea is based on a feeling rather than on knowledge or facts SYN instinctive: He seemed to have an intuitive awareness of how I felt.2someone who is intuitive is able to understand situations without being told or having any proof about them—intuitively adverb |