intuitive

Reading level: hard

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

  1. adjective spontaneously derived from or prompted by a natural tendency
  2. adjective obtained through intuition rather than from reasoning or observation

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French intuitif, from Medieval Latin intuitivus, from Latin intueri.

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