INTUIT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does intuit mean? 

• INTUIT (verb)
  The verb INTUIT has 1 sense:

1. know or grasp by intuition or feeling

  Familiarity information: INTUIT used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INTUIT (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they intuit    ... he / she / it intuits   
Past simple: intuited   
Past participle: intuited   
-ing form: intuiting   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Know or grasp by intuition or feeling

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Hypernyms (to "intuit" is one way to...):

apprehend; compass; comprehend; dig; get the picture; grasp; grok; savvy (get the meaning of something)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s that CLAUSE

Derivation:

intuition (instinctive knowing (without the use of rational processes))

intuition (an impression that something might be the case)

intuitive (obtained through intuition rather than from reasoning or observation)