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ALL meanings of counterintuitive

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  • adjective counterintuitive (of an idea, proposal, etc) seemingly contrary to common sense 3
  • adjective counterintuitive intelligence collected about enemy espionage 3
  • adjective counterintuitive contrary to an intuitive belief or to common-sense expectations 3
  • adjective counterintuitive counter to what intuition would lead one to expect: The direction we had to follow was counterintuitive—we had to go north first before we went south. 1
  • noun counterintuitive Contrary to intuition or to common-sense expectation (but often nevertheless true). 1
  • adjective counterintuitive Contrary to intuition or common sense. 0
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