Intuitive - English meaning

adjective

(of a device or process) working by itself with little or no direct human control.

Usage examples:

An automatic kettle that switches itself off when it boils

noun

A gun that continues firing until the ammunition is exhausted or the pressure on the trigger is released.

Usage examples:

The rapid fire of automatics

adjective

Included in something at the time that it is created

Usage examples:

Built-in bookcases lined the walls of the library., with this software, safeguards are built-in.

adjective

Included, made, or designed as part of something

Usage examples:

Most new laptops have built-in wi-fi.

adjective

(of a disease or physical abnormality) present from birth.

Usage examples:

A congenital malformation of the heart

adjective

Existing at or from birth

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A congenital defect

adjective

Acting or done without forethought.

Usage examples:

They'd married as impulsive teenagers

adjective

Acting or done suddenly without any planning or consideration of the results

Usage examples:

She’s an impulsive shopper and often buys things she doesn’t need.

adjective

Existing from birth.

Usage examples:

An inborn defect in the formation of collagen

adjective

Possessed as a characteristic from birth

Usage examples:

Research suggests that some people have an inborn tendency to develop certain types of cancer.

adjective

Existing as an original or essential part of something or someone.

Usage examples:

The body's inbuilt ability to heal itself

adjective

Growing or having grown within; innate.

Usage examples:

As ingrown habit would have dictated

adjective

Growing into the flesh

Usage examples:

An ingrown toenail

adjective

Existing in something as a permanent, essential, or characteristic attribute.

Usage examples:

Any form of mountaineering has its inherent dangers

adjective

Existing as a natural and permanent quality of something or someone

Usage examples:

The drug has certain inherent side effects., some phenomena in physics are inherently uncertain.

adjective

Inborn; natural.

Usage examples:

Her innate capacity for organization

adjective

Relating to or prompted by instinct; done without conscious thought.

Usage examples:

An instinctive distaste for conflict

Unthinking

adjective

(of behavior or actions) not thought about, planned, or learned

Usage examples:

My instinctive reaction was to walk away to avoid an argument., she instinctively understood how i …

adjective

Relating to or denoting an innate, typically fixed pattern of behaviour; based on instinct.

Usage examples:

An instinctual survival response

adjective

Happening naturally, as a result of instinct, rather than being thought about, planned, or developed by training

Usage examples:

Those who struggle to control their instinctual passions, he says his decisions that day were insti…

adjective

Done without will or conscious control.

Usage examples:

She gave an involuntary shudder

adjective

Not done willingly, or not done intentionally

Usage examples:

A sharp tap beneath the knee usually causes an involuntary movement of the lower leg., the driver o…

adjective

Not done by choice, or not done as a result of someone's decision or intention

Usage examples:

Involuntary unemployment means that you suffer a total loss of salary as the result of the loss of …

adjective

Existing in or derived from nature; not made or caused by humankind.

Usage examples:

Carrots contain a natural antiseptic

noun

A person having an innate talent for a particular task or activity.

Usage examples:

She was a natural for television work

adverb

A person born with a learning disability.

adjective

Performed or occurring as a result of a sudden impulse or inclination and without premeditation or external stimulus.

Usage examples:

The audience broke into spontaneous applause

Said or done without having been planned in advance

adjective

Happening naturally, without planning or encouragement

Usage examples:

A spontaneous performance, spontaneous affection, the children spontaneously gave us hugs and kisses.

adjective

Of or concerning the part of the mind of which one is not fully aware but which influences one's actions and feelings.

Usage examples:

My subconscious fear

noun

The subconscious part of the mind (not in technical use in psychoanalysis, where unconscious is preferred).

Usage examples:

Uncertainties were lurking around the edge of her subconscious

adjective

Not awake and aware of and responding to one's environment.

Usage examples:

The boy was beaten unconscious

noun

The part of the mind which is inaccessible to the conscious mind but which affects behaviour and emotions.

Usage examples:

Horrific apparitions surfaced out of the recesses of his unconscious

Lacking awareness and the capacity for sensory perception

adjective

(of a person) not well educated.

Usage examples:

He appealed to an unlearned audience as well as to sympathetic scholars

adjective

Not having been learned.

Usage examples:

She found herself on the stage, lines unlearned

verb

Discard (something learned, especially a bad habit or false or outdated information) from one's memory.

Usage examples:

Teachers are being asked to unlearn rigid rules for labelling and placing children

adjective

Not having been taught or educated.

Usage examples:

She is totally untaught and will not listen

verb

Cause (someone) to forget something learned previously.

Usage examples:

I'll have a problem unteaching them but you don't know anything so you have nothing to unlearn