intuitively

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adverb

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.”

Less commonScrabble 17

Meanings

adverbintuitively (comparative more intuitively, superlative most intuitively)

comparative more intuitively · superlative most intuitively

  1. 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.

    2 more examples

    "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 100

    Thus, 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 4

    Antonyms: 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
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Chicago

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