单词 | intuit |
释义 | intuit (once / 596 pages) v To intuit is to get a strong sense of something using only your intuition. You might give up on a job interview halfway through, if you intuit that the job wouldn't be a good fit for you. When you have a hunch about something, you intuit. For example, a pregnant woman might intuit that she's having twins, and a teacher might intuit that a student is having a hard day and needs some extra attention. The earliest meaning of intuit was "to tutor," until the mid-19th century. The word comes from the Latin root intueri, "look at, comprehend, or contemplate." WORD FAMILYintuit: intuited, intuiting, intuition, intuitive, intuits+/counterintuitive: counterintuitively/intuition: intuitionism, intuitions/intuitionism: intuitionist/intuitive: counterintuitive, intuitively USAGE EXAMPLESOf the few Hughesian things Stranger Things intuited, this was one of them. The Guardian(Dec 20, 2016) Maybe it’s that producers intuit a prevailing vibe. Los Angeles Times(Dec 07, 2016) Instead, they ask their audiences to make an imaginative identification with their characters and intuit the experience of enduring it through them. Slate(Nov 30, 2016) v know or grasp by intuition or feeling Hyper apprehend, compass, comprehend, dig, get the picture, grasp, grok, savvy understand or perceive the meaning of something |
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