Definition of INTUIT

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 Word
intuit: 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