Sample sentences for INTUITIVE

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Definition

based on feeling or instinct rather than conscious reasoning

or:

easy to understand without training or study

The were perfect partners—one highly intuitive and the other highly analytical.

intuitive = known instinctively rather than through reasoning

Intuitively, I knew not to trust her.

intuitively = known instinctively rather than through reasoning

Experience has taught me that I can trust my intuition about friendships.

intuition = the ability to known instinctively rather than through reasoning; or the thing that is known in such a way

(editor's note: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.)

During [these] periods of relaxation after concentrated intellectual activity, the intuitive mind seems to take over and can produce the sudden clarifying insights which give so much joy and delight.
Fritjof Capra
She was far more intuitive than I. Her gift for understanding people much greater.
Alice Walker -- The Color Purple

intuitive = characterized by basing decisions on feeling or instinct rather than conscious reasoning

She knew she hadn't really known him long enough to make that kind of judgment, but she couldn't deny her intuition.
Nicholas Sparks -- The Lucky One

intuition = something believed based on feeling or instinct rather than conscious reasoning

When we are honest with children, we also validate their intuition.
Jay Allison, et al. -- This I Believe II

intuition = ability to known instinctively rather than through reasoning

He learned to decipher the meaning of certain silences, which is like solving a tough case without any clues, with only intuition.
Nicole Krauss -- The History of Love

intuition = the ability to known instinctively rather than through reasoning

And I did tell you to follow your intuition, didn't I?
P.C. Cast & Kristin Cast -- Betrayed

intuition = feelings or instincts rather than conscious reasoning

Oh, he'd managed to get good marks all right ..., but he didn't have one speck of intuition.
Sylvia Plath -- The Bell Jar

intuition = the ability to known instinctively rather than through reasoning

I am married to a woman blessed with far more intuitive kindness than I.
Mitch Albom -- Tuesdays with Morrie

intuitive = natural (known without the need to teach)

He was bright, intuitive.
Ellen Hopkins -- Crank

intuitive = knew things instinctively rather than through reasoning

The boy was beginning to understand that intuition is really a sudden immersion of the soul into the universal current of life,
Paulo Coelho -- The Alchemist

intuition = the ability to known instinctively rather than through reasoning

Intuitively, I knew how easily distances could harden and become permanent.
Junot Diaz -- Drown

intuitively = instinctively (known without having been taught or having needed to determine with logical reasoning)

But never ignore your intuition, either.
Nicholas Sparks -- The Guardian

intuition = things known instinctively rather than through reasoning

I still think there is something known as "intuition" and "human judgment."
Robert A. Heinlein -- The Moon is a Harsh Mistress

intuition = the ability to known instinctively rather than through reasoning

But what is often called an intuition is really impression based on logical deduction or experience.
Agatha Christie -- The ABC Murders

intuition = knowing something instinctively rather than through reasoning

The intuitive voice inside me that had become familiar was screaming.
P.C. Cast & Kristin Cast -- Marked

intuitive = known instinctively rather than through reasoning

Hoping for an intuition to guide me.
Katherine Applegate -- Everworld - Search For Senna

intuition = instinctive knowledge (not known through conscious reasoning)

All my wife has ever taken from the Mediterranean—from that whole vast intuitive culture—are...
Peter Shaffer -- Equus

intuitive = having instinctive knowledge rather than knowledge through learning and reasoning

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