Adjective

(en adjective)

Spontaneous, without requiring conscious thought.

* {{quote-magazine, date=2012-01

, author=Steven Sloman , title=The Battle Between Intuition and Deliberation , volume=100, issue=1, page=74 , magazine= citation , passage=Libertarian paternalism is the view that, because the way options are presented to citizens affects what they choose, society should present options in a way that “nudges” our intuitive selves to make choices that are more consistent with what our more deliberative selves would have chosen if they were in control.}}

* 2013 February 16, Laurie Goodstein, “ Cardinals Size Up Potential Candidates for New Pope”, NYTimes.com :

These impressions [of potential papal candidates], collected from interviews with a variety of church officials and experts, may influence the very intuitive , often unpredictable process the cardinals will use to decide who should lead the world’s largest church.

The intuitive response turned out to be correct.

Easily understood or grasped by intuition.

Designing software with an intuitive interface can be difficult.

Having a marked degree of intuition.

Adjective

(en adjective)

Practical, concerned with making decisions and actions that are useful in practice, not just theory.

* The sturdy furniture in the student lounge was pragmatic , but unattractive.

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Nor indeed are these restrictions pragmatic'' in nature: i.e. the ill-formedness of the ''heed''-sentences in (60) is entirely different in kind from the oddity of sentences like:
(61)      !That man will eat any car which thinks he?s stupid
which is purely ''pragmatic (i.e. lies in the fact that (61) describes the kind of bizarre situation which just doesn?t happen in the world we are familiar with, where cars don?t think, and people don?t eat cars).

philosophical; dealing with causes, reasons, and effects, rather than with details and circumstances; said of literature.

* Sir W. Hamilton

Pragmatic history.

* M. Arnold

Pragmatic poetry.