Unintuitive vs X - What's the difference?
unintuitive | x |
Not intuitive, not easily graspable by intuition
In particular, counterintuitive; counter to what one's intuition expects.
The twenty-fourth letter of the .
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As an adjective unintuitive
is not intuitive, not easily graspable by intuition.As a letter x is
the twenty-fourth letter of the.As a symbol x is
voiceless velar fricative.unintuitive
English
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(en adjective)Quotations
not easily grasped by intuition * 2003, Debora S Ray, Eric J Ray, UNIX [http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&id=8aIxVvB1zR4C&pg=PA237&lpg=PA237&sig=HXpQtAxK9BB35d8TvgNahBU29Ps] *: Despitemail’s unintuitive interface and features, it is a great program to use if you just want to dash off a quick message without fussing with niceties.
* 2003, David Karlins, How to Do Everything with Illustrator CS [http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&id=4WieDup--YUC&pg=PA4&lpg=PA4&sig=0HZH7XM--rzmUlRcWauBhvwYd3w]
*: Vectors give Illustrator its muscle, versatility, and subtlety, but many artists find vectors unintuitive and even frustrating.
* 2004, Ben Forta, Teach Yourself Regular Expressions in 10 Minutes [http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&id=Xrd6z2NMNawC&pg=PA1&lpg=PA1&sig=Ph1Gd57kuwnbGDgQA3D9O7AApOQ]
*: And those who have braved them find regular expression syntax to be unintuitive , and even convoluted at times.
counter to one's intuitions
* 1995, Linda Mui, When You Can't Find Your UNIX System Administrator [http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&id=vcCPyz32mSgC&pg=PA1&lpg=PA1&sig=MpEi2TftymDjoRnXONQRQZNgEzY]
*: UNIX people have this annoying way of pronouncing things in unintuitive ways (such as TeX'' and ''vi ), perhaps so they can tell the Outsiders from the people “in-the-know.”
* 1995, T.C. Przymusinski, “Semantics of Normal and Disjunctive Logic Programs,” in Non-monotonic Extensions of Logic Programming, Jürgen Dix, Louis Moniz Pereira, and Teodor C. Przymusinski edd. [http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&id=n0uTAAscbOYC&pg=PA55&lpg=PA55&sig=wg3LNDJOjDGYCGF-zwLRV1gUFL4]
*: For disjunctive logic programs the straight translation T¬?(P) often leads to an unintuitive meaning.
* 1995, Julia Annas, The Morality of Happiness [http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&id=KRfwSjk3fBcC&pg=PA390&lpg=PA390&sig=vYWIX31rX74XZOuOGPx7UodyjYw]
*: I may well accept that I am happy if I am getting what benefits me; but if I am then told that what benefits me does so whatever I think about it, the notion of happiness in play comes to seem highly unintuitive .
* 2001, Ernest Nagel, James R Newman, Gödel's Proof [http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&id=jNzsLjQqnaYC&pg=PA13&lpg=PA13&sig=iUBw_MGoAK58lHQWRUzXwVBoeqA]
*: Intuition, for one thing, is an elastic faculty: our children will probably have no difficulty in accepting as intuitively obvious the paradoxes of relativity, just as we do not boggle at ideas that were regarded as wholly unintuitive a couple of generations ago.
* 2003, Matthew Robinson, Pavel A Vorobiev, Swing [http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&id=fxKik33QhxYC&pg=PA287&lpg=PA287&sig=b9B5bVq7jrHeCXc85N9JL0hFdA0]
*: Note that when you first start the example you need to press the up arrow or key to get to the next value in the sequence. This feels somewhat unintuitive , but it is based on the index of the values in the array. AK is 0, AL is 1, and so forth.