intuitive

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: in=tu=i=tive

CIDE DICTIONARY

intuitive, a. [Cf. F. intuitif.].

•  Seeing clearly; as, an intuitive view; intuitive vision.  [1913 Webster]
•  Knowing, or perceiving, by intuition; capable of knowing without deduction or reasoning.  [1913 Webster]

  "Whence the soul
  Reason receives, and reason is her being,
  Discursive, or intuitive."  [1913 Webster]
•  Received, reached, obtained, or perceived, by intuition; as, intuitive judgment or knowledge; -- opposed to deductive.  Locke.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

intuitive, adj.
1 of, characterized by, or possessing intuition.
2 perceived by intuition.

Derivative

intuitively adv. intuitiveness n.

Etymology

med.L intuitivus (as INTUIT)

THESAURUS

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

ROGET THESAURUS

intuitive

& Sophistry

N intuition, instinct, association, hunch, gut feeling, presentiment, premonition, rule of thumb, superstition, astrology, faith (supposition), sophistry, paralogy, perversion, casuistry, jesuitry, equivocation, evasion, chicane, chicanery, quiddet, quiddity, mystification, special pleading, speciousness, nonsense, word sense, tongue sense, false reasoning, vicious reasoning, circular reasoning, petitio principii, ignoratio elenchi, post hoc ergo propter hoc, non sequitur, ignotum per ignotius, misjudgment, false teaching, sophism, solecism, paralogism, quibble, quirk, elenchus, elench, fallacy, quodlibet, subterfuge, subtlety, quillet, inconsistency, antilogy, a delusion, a mockery, and a snare, claptrap, cant, mere words, lame and impotent conclusion, meshes of sophistry, cobwebs of sophistry, flaw in an argument, weak point, bad case, overrefinement, hairsplitting, intuitive, instinctive, impulsive, independent of reason, anterior to reason, gratuitous, hazarded, unconnected, unreasonable, illogical, false, unsound, invalid, unwarranted, not following, inconsequent, inconsequential, inconsistent, absonous, absonant, unscientific, untenable, inconclusive, incorrect, fallacious, fallible, groundless, unproved, non sequitur, it does not follow, deceptive, sophistical, jesuitical, illusive, illusory, specious, hollow, plausible, ad captandum, evasive, irrelevant, weak, feeble, poor, flimsy, loose, vague, irrational, nonsensical, foolish, frivolous, pettifogging, quibbling, finespun, overrefined, at the end of one's tether, au bout de son latin, intuitively, by intuition, illogically, non constat, that goes for nothing.