Dictionary

intuitively en · ADV

Pronunciation

• (Mid-Atlantic, US) audio

Etymology

Etymology tree English intuitive Middle English -ly English -ly English intuitively From intuitive + -ly.

Meanings

1. By intuition; with skill or accuracy, but without special training or planning; instinctively.
   • "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:
   • Though he had never been to art school, he intuitively painted vivid landscapes.

Forms

Antonyms

unintuitively

Translations (12)

uk інтуїти́вно (by intuition) · es intuitivamente (by intuition) · eo intuicie (by intuition) · gl intuitivamente (by intuition) · it intuitivamente (by intuition) · fi vaistonvaraisesti (by intuition) · lv intuitīvi (by intuition) · pt intuitivamente (by intuition) · fi intuitiivisesti (by intuition) · sv intuitivt (by intuition) · ca intuïtivament (by intuition) · pl intuicyjnie (by intuition)