COUNTERINTUITIVE


Meaning of COUNTERINTUITIVE in English

/kown'teuhr in tooh"i tiv, -tyooh"-/ , adj.

counter to what intuition would lead one to expect: The direction we had to follow was counterintuitive - we had to go north first before we went south.

[ 1960-65; COUNTER- + INTUITIVE ]

Random House Webster's Unabridged English dictionary.      Полный английский словарь Вебстер - Random House .