as in intimate
characterized by what feels naturally right or true without coming from thought or learning
He has an intuitive sense of what others are feeling that makes him a great listener. The designer has an intuitive style that stands out from the crowd but is also practical.
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Recent Examples of intuitive
These tools give developers the building blocks to create interactions that feel intuitive and human, not stiff or mechanical.
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Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 10 Feb. 2026
But these qualities — strong, decisive, hard-working and intuitive — are all positive.
—Los Angeles Times, 10 Feb. 2026
Your 6th House of To-Do Lists features the intuitive Moon squaring the dynamic Sun in your 9th House of Exploration.
—Tarot.com, Sun Sentinel, 9 Feb. 2026
As intuitive, and equally arresting visually, is the steering wheel and binnacle configuration.
—Viju Mathew, Robb Report, 9 Feb. 2026
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Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 10 Feb. 2026
But these qualities — strong, decisive, hard-working and intuitive — are all positive.
—Los Angeles Times, 10 Feb. 2026
Your 6th House of To-Do Lists features the intuitive Moon squaring the dynamic Sun in your 9th House of Exploration.
—Tarot.com, Sun Sentinel, 9 Feb. 2026
As intuitive, and equally arresting visually, is the steering wheel and binnacle configuration.
—Viju Mathew, Robb Report, 9 Feb. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for intuitive
Adjective
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The spa The on-site spa is small and intimate, with just a few treatment beds, which makes booking in advance highly recommended.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
20 Feb. 2026
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His role is to capture those intimate moments just seconds after a performance has finished, becoming the first camera operator in Olympic history to be allowed onto the ice.—
Ben Church,
CNN Money,
19 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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There’s an intrinsic link between fatherhood and baseball.—
Kansas City Star,
Kansas City Star,
15 Feb. 2026
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High-resistivity wafers enter the high-level injection regime more readily than low-resistivity ones, a physical characteristic that underlies their superior intrinsic potential for achieving high fill factors.—
Bojan Stojkovski,
Interesting Engineering,
14 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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The inherent disagreement isn’t about those facts.—
Steve Booren,
Denver Post,
15 Feb. 2026
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For all the inherent sadness of its subject matter, Mouse is never depressing, thanks to the delicacy of O’Sullivan and Thompson’s filmmaking.—
Bilge Ebiri,
Vulture,
13 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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What emerged was a season defined by ease and quiet confidence, where modern dressing feels instinctive, purposeful and deeply personal.—
Lisa Lockwood,
Footwear News,
17 Feb. 2026
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Johnson is instinctive, capable of quickly diagnosing layered route concepts, and can bait quarterbacks into making a mistake.—
Eddie Brown,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
17 Feb. 2026
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Maybe this instinctual allure is why waiting lists for allotments have doubled and tripled in the past decade.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
19 Feb. 2026
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The former five-star recruit is big (6-3, 238), instinctual, and features impressive lateral quickness and movement skills.—
Eddie Brown,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
17 Feb. 2026
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“Intuitive.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/intuitive. Accessed 21 Feb. 2026.
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