INTUITIVE • E-FREE TRANSLATION.COM • Definition of Intuitive

Add this Dictionary
to your website!
See more options...

/ɪntˈuətɪv/ Listen

adjective

Intuitive adj.

Seeing clearly; as, an intuitive view; intuitive vision.

Knowing, or perceiving, by intuition; capable of knowing without deduction or reasoning. "Whence the soul Reason receives, and reason is her being, Discursive, or intuitive."

Received, reached, obtained, or perceived, by intuition; as, intuitive judgment or knowledge; opposed to deductive.

See images of 'Intuitive'

Etymology of 'Intuitive'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

Share |

"Intuitive" Quotes from Famous Books

... leap in Irene's eyes; the leap of that intuitive feminine sense of danger which so seldom errs in dealing with its own sex, and is yet so unreliable a defence from the dangers of the other. Mrs. Hardy was in the living-room. "Won't you come up to my work shop?" Irene ...

— The Cow Puncher • Robert J. C. Stead

... Mr. Tupman?' inquired Mr. Grummer. He had an intuitive perception of Mr. Pickwick; he ...

— The Pickwick Papers • Charles Dickens

... artistically in his great poem. "I must confess," he writes to Roeckel, "to having arrived at a clear understanding of my own works of art through the help of another, who has provided me with the reasoned conceptions corresponding to my intuitive principles." ...

— The Perfect Wagnerite - A Commentary on the Niblung's Ring • George Bernard Shaw

... all on board, showed the least outward excitement at the time of the disaster. It occurred to me that once or twice I had seen her eyes fixed on Hungerford inquisitively, and not free from antipathy. It was something behind her usual equanimity. Her intuitive observation had led her to trace his hand in recent events. Yet I know she admired him too for his brave conduct. The day following the tragedy we were seated at dinner. The captain and most of the officers had risen, but Mrs. Falchion, having ...

— The Judgment House • Gilbert Parker

... make this narrative too long if I went into detail about the interesting people I met. Florence and Rossamund Davenport Hill introduced me to Miss Frances Power Cobbe, whose "Intuitive Morals" I admired so much. At Sir Rowland Hill's I met Sir Walter Crofter, a prison reformer; Mr. Wells, Editor of "All the Year Round;" Charles Knight, who had done so much for good and cheap literature; Madame ...

— An Autobiography • Catherine Helen Spence

More quotes...