Intuitive

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Intuitive \In*tu"i*tive\, a. [Cf. F. intuitif.]
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     1. Seeing clearly; as, an intuitive view; intuitive vision.
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     2. Knowing, or perceiving, by intuition; capable of knowing


        without deduction or reasoning.
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              Whence the soul
              Reason receives, and reason is her being,
              Discursive, or intuitive.             --Milton.
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     3. Received, reached, obtained, or perceived, by intuition;
        as, intuitive judgment or knowledge; -- opposed to
        {deductive}. --Locke.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  intuitive
       adj 1: spontaneously derived from or prompted by a natural
              tendency; "an intuitive revulsion"
       2: obtained through intuition rather than from reasoning or
          observation [syn: {nonrational}, {visceral}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  52 Moby Thesaurus words for "intuitive":
     anticipant, anticipatory, augural, clairvoyant, direct, divinatory,
     farseeing, farsighted, feeling, forehanded, foreknowing,
     forerunning, foreseeing, foreshadowing, foreshowing, foresighted,
     forethoughted, forethoughtful, foretokening, forewarning,
     heavy with meaning, immediate, indicative, instinctual,
     intuitional, longsighted, meaningful, monitory, precognitive,
     precognizant, precursive, precursory, predictive, prefigurative,
     preindicative, premonitory, prepared, presageful, presaging,
     prescient, prognostic, prognosticative, provident, providential,
     prudent, ready, sagacious, second-sighted, sensing, significant,
     visceral, warning