Synonyms of intuit

intuit

verb

in-ˈtü-ət 

as in to understand

to have a clear idea of

an imaginative genius like Shakespeare could intuit the thoughts, feelings, and motives of a vast array of characters

Synonyms & Similar Words

• understand
• know
• decipher
• recognize
• comprehend
• see
• grasp
• appreciate
• discern
• perceive
• realize
• get
• sense
• conceive
• apprehend
• assimilate
• decode
• make
• grok
• dig
• register
• make out
• seize
• cognize
• cotton (to or on to)
• tumble (to)
• behold
• catch on (to)
• catch
• compass
• savvy
• twig
• fathom
• absorb
• pick up on
• digest
• penetrate
• take in
• pierce

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• miss
• misunderstand
• misread
• misinterpret
• misconstrue
• mistake
• misapprehend
• misperceive
• misconceive

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of intuit

British psychiatrist Humphry Osmond, who took part in a peyote ceremony with a First Nations group the Red Pheasant Band in Saskatchewan, Canada, in 1956, intuited the necessity of community, empathy, and ego renunciation during the psychedelic process. —Erica Rex, STAT, 19 Feb. 2026

And so the podcast’s producers, perhaps intuiting that the dialogue experiment with conservatives is failing, occasionally slot in friendlier agents of power, Hollywood types, with whom Newsom can discuss the finer points of things like tax incentives to film in the state of California. —Doreen St. Félix, New Yorker, 14 Feb. 2026

As Pollan intuits, this practice isn’t all that fun at first. —Isabel Fattal, The Atlantic, 7 Feb. 2026

This gadget intuits the temperature by learning from your behavior. —Yelena Moroz Alpert, Architectural Digest, 6 Feb. 2026