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intuitive
adjective as in instinctive
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automatic, direct, habitual, immediate, inherent, instinctual, involuntary, natural, understood, unreflecting, untaught
Example Sentences
It seemed gratuitous and counter-intuitive in a story that had already inflicted more than enough suffering.
Playing the foul-mouthed bad character will become as predictable and counter-intuitive as a playing a thousand Joeys.
More than any other media proprietor, Rupert Murdoch had an intuitive revelation about the value of news as a commodity.
He began painting what he would call “intuitive abstractions,” and “cosmic cubism.”
She is a woman with strong, provocative, and deceptively intuitive opinions.
In some intuitive way, surviving probably from the somnambulism, she knew or guessed as much as I knew.
So strong is the tendency to ascribe an intuitive character to judgments which are mere inferences, and often false ones.
Now Intelligence possesses them by thought, a thought which is not discursive (but intuitive).
In other words, the technician is the man who invents or preserves labels to be pasted on the intuitive practices of his art.
One of his precious ideals citadeling womanhood crumbled with intuitive rapidity.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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