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intuitively

Definition, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for intuitively.

Editorial note

San Francisco is not distinctive enough from other well-designed serif fonts that people will intuitively notice a spoofed message.

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Quick take

By intuition; with skill or accuracy, but without special training or planning; instinctively.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of intuitively gathered in one view.

adverb

By intuition; with skill or accuracy, but without special training or planning; instinctively.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for intuitively.

adverb

By intuition; with skill or accuracy, but without special training or planning; instinctively.

Example sentences

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San Francisco is not distinctive enough from other well-designed serif fonts that people will intuitively notice a spoofed message.

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Although, it seems like not all functions are intuitively reversible like the vector example given here.

3

If you're going through emotional difficulties, counter-intuitively the last thing that will help is concrete advice.

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I would intuitively expect murder to be more common than child sexual abuse, but perhaps I am being naive.

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Vsauce makes a good point that we just aren't made to intuitively understand this type of stuff.

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Yes, it sounds intuitively somewhat plausible, but do we have anything better than this hunch, that it sounds kinda good?

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This says: hold on, understand what you're looking at intuitively first.

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Counter-intuitively, suddenly everyone has become a devops luddite when it comes to a genuinely novel approach even though container abstractions have already proven themselves at scale.

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A solution that would work somewhat counter intuitively would be parking a plane at LAS this summer for all the Black Hat and DEF CON attendees to play with.

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We regard them as intuitively, tautologically true.

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Fantastic managers do this intuitively and do not need instruction or tools for it.

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Right, we know that's not OK intuitively.

Quote examples

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Intuitively, the difference is that tracing operates on live objects, or “matter”, while reference counting operates on dead objects, or “anti-matter”.

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As every reader will intuitively agree with it, the author gets them "on side".

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This incompatibility really shows when we are talking about physics, I rely on my intuition a lot, then she asks the hardest questions ever about the most "intuitively simple" things.

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It's easy to intuitively claim that "just" being able to accurately predict the behavior of a system isn't the same thing as having a "true understanding" of it, but are there any observable, tangible differences?

Proper noun examples

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Intuitively, it feels like 360-degree 3D video would require a heck of a lot of cameras.

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Intuitively, converting a spreadsheet doesn't sound like it should be a high complexity task.

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Intuitively the latter version somehow feels more robust, but in practice they're basically equivalent, and the first version arguably carries less baggage.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use intuitively in a sentence?

San Francisco is not distinctive enough from other well-designed serif fonts that people will intuitively notice a spoofed message.

What does intuitively mean?

By intuition; with skill or accuracy, but without special training or planning; instinctively.

What part of speech is intuitively?

intuitively is commonly used as adverb.