Meanings
comparative more intuitively · superlative most intuitively
- By intuition; with skill or accuracy, but without special training or planning; instinctively.
Though he had never been to art school, he intuitively painted vivid landscapes.
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"I will," said Constance, who felt intuitively that Lady Marchmont spoke the truth: "I thought that there was something very peculiar in your manner at Mrs. Howard's fête; and Lady Dudley——"
1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “Confidence”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 100Thus, native speakers have an intuitive knowledge of the syntactic relations between the words in sentences in their language; in other words, they intuitively know how words are combined together to form Phrases, and Phrases are combined together to form sentences. [...]
1988, Andrew Radford, Transformational Grammar, Cambridge: University Press, →ISBN, page 4Antonyms: unintuitively
Synonyms & antonyms
adverbBy intuition; with skill or accuracy, but without special training or planning; instinctively.
Origin
Translations
Catalan intuïtivament
- intuïtivamentby intuition
Esperanto intuicie
- intuicieby intuition
Finnish intuitiivisesti, vaistonvaraisesti
- intuitiivisestiby intuition
- vaistonvaraisestiby intuition
Italian intuitivamente
- intuitivamenteby intuition
Latvian intuitīvi
- intuitīviby intuition
Polish intuicyjnie
- intuicyjnieby intuition
Portuguese intuitivamente
- intuitivamenteby intuition
Spanish intuitivamente
- intuitivamenteby intuition
Swedish intuitivt
- intuitivtby intuition
Ukrainian інтуїти́вно
- інтуїти́вно (intujitývno)by intuition
Cite this entry
intuitively. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/intuitively
“intuitively.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/intuitively. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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