intuitively

intuitive +‎ -ly

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intuitively (comparative more intuitively, superlative most intuitively)

1. By intuition; with skill or accuracy, but without special training or planning; instinctively.

   Antonym: unintuitively

   • 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “Confidence”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 100:

     "I will," said Constance, who felt intuitively that Lady Marchmont spoke the truth: "I thought that there was something very peculiar in your manner at Mrs. Howard's fête; and Lady Dudley——"

   • 1988, Andrew Radford, Transformational Grammar, Cambridge: University Press, →ISBN, page 4:

     Thus, native speakers have an intuitive knowledge of the syntactic relations between the words in sentences in their language; in other words, they intuitively know how words are combined together to form Phrases, and Phrases are combined together to form sentences. [...]

   Though he had never been to art school, he intuitively painted vivid landscapes.