Meaning & use
unintuitive
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Not easy to understand or use by instinct alone; contrary to what one would expect.
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The software's menu system was so unintuitive that new users needed a tutorial.
Some physics concepts, like time dilation, are deeply unintuitive at first.
A note on using this word
Commonly used in design and technology contexts to describe interfaces that don't match users' expectations.
Words with a similar meaning
counterintuitiveconfusing
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Words with an opposite meaning
intuitivestraightforward
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