intuitive Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. adjective satellite spontaneously derived from or prompted by a natural tendency
    • an intuitive revulsion
  2. adjective satellite obtained through intuition rather than from reasoning or observation
    visceral; nonrational.

WordNet

In*tu"i*tive adjective
Etymology
Cf. F. intuitif.
Definitions
  1. Seeing clearly; as, an intuitive view; intuitive vision.
  2. 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. Milton.
  3. Received. reached, obtained, or perceived, by intuition; as, intuitive judgment or knowledge; -- opposed to deductive. Locke.

Webster 1913