Hypertext Webster Gateway: "intuitive"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Intuitive \In*tu"i*tive\, a. [Cf. F. intuitif.]
1. Seeing clearly; as, an intuitive view; intuitive vision.
2. Knowing, or perceiving, by intuition; capable of knowing
without deduction or reasoning.
Whence the soul Reason receives, and reason is her
being, Discursive, or intuitive. --Milton.
3. Received. reached, obtained, or perceived, by intuition;
as, intuitive judgment or knowledge; -- opposed to
{deductive}. --Locke.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
intuitive
adj 1: spontaneously derived from or prompted by a natural
tendency; "an intuitive revulsion"
2: obtained through intuition rather than from reasoning or
observation [syn: {nonrational}, {visceral}]
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