Intuitive means known without reasoning, or easy to use without instruction. An intuitive grasp, an intuitive design, counter-intuitive.
Applied to a design it is the highest praise and the vaguest, since what feels intuitive is mostly what you have seen before. Counter-intuitive means true but surprising, and much of science is exactly that.
1adjectiveintuitiveKnown without reasoning, or easy to use without instruction.
“The app is so intuitive that my grandmother learned to use it in minutes.”
intuitive is a quality.
Medieval Latin intuitivus comes from intueri, to look upon or consider — in plus tueri, to watch.
Latin
intueri
Medieval Latin
intuitivus
Middle French
intuitif
English, today
intuitive
Borrowed from Middle French intuitif, from Medieval Latin intuitivus, from Latin intueri.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA