intuit
Verb
Verb Forms: intuited, intuiting, intuits
- To understand or know something by intuition, without conscious reasoning.
- know or grasp by intuition or feeling
- To know intuitively or by immediate perception.
Examples
- He could often INTUIT his opponent’s strategy just by looking at the remaining tiles.
Origin / Etymology
A back-formation from intuition and intuitive; compare Latin intuitus (“observed; considered”), perfect participle of intueor (“to look at, upon or towards; to observe, regard; to consider, contemplate”), from in- (“in, inside”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₁én (“in”)) + tueor (“to look or gaze at”) (from Proto-Indo-European *tewH- (“to observe; to look favourably upon”)). See tuition, tutor.
Scrabble Score: 6
intuit: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordintuit: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
intuit: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary
Words With Friends Score: 8
intuit: valid Words With Friends Word