intuit
Other forms: intuited; intuiting; intuits
To intuit is to get a strong sense of something using only your intuition. You might give up on a job interview halfway through, if you intuit that the job wouldn't be a good fit for you.
When you have a hunch about something, you intuit. For example, a pregnant woman might intuit that she's having twins, and a teacher might intuit that a student is having a hard day and needs some extra attention. The earliest meaning of intuit was "to tutor," until the mid-19th century. The word comes from the Latin root intueri, "look at, comprehend, or contemplate."
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know or grasp by intuition or feelingtype of:apprehend, compass, comprehend, dig, get the picture, grasp, grok, savvyunderstand or perceive the meaning of something
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Vocabulary lists containing intuit
Shaker Heights seems like an idyllic suburb, but tensions between the conventional Richardson family and their mysterious new tenant come to a head during a custody dispute that divides the town.
Jacob travels to Wales to find the mysterious children's home from his grandfather's stories—but what he discovers is stranger than he could have imagined.
Italian author and professor of semiotics Umberto Eco died on February 19, 2016 at the age of 84. Eco studied symbols for a living, not just what things mean but how things come to mean what they do, and his day job as a professor of signs lead to his writing fiction that twisted and got knotted up in satisfying ways. Eco understood that all stories are on some level about storytelling itself, and many of Eco's tales operated on both of these levels at once. Here are 15 vocabulary words from quotes from the complicated, fascinating mind of Umberto Eco.