Counterintuitive vs Unexpected - What's the difference?
counterintuitive | unexpected |
Not expected, anticipated or foreseen.
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As adjectives the difference between counterintuitive and unexpected
is that counterintuitive is contrary to intuition or common sense while unexpected is not expected, anticipated or foreseen.counterintuitive
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Alternative forms
* counter-intuitiveAntonyms
* intuitiveDerived terms
* counterintuitivelyunexpected
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Adjective
(en adjective)citation, passage=She was a fat, round little woman, richly apparelled in velvet and lace, […]; and the way she laughed, cackling like a hen, the way she talked to the waiters and the maid, […]—all these unexpected phenomena impelled one to hysterical mirth, and made one class her with such immortally ludicrous types as Ally Sloper, the Widow Twankey, or Miss Moucher.}}
- The windmill presented unexpected difficulties.