May 4, 2022 · Today I found out that despite using and hearing it frequently, "unintuitive" is not a word. I searched english.stackexchange and found countless …

Nov 24, 2022 · 1 "The study conducted in [1] reveals the unintuitive role of X." unintuitive is the converse of intuitive: OED: intuitive 3.a. Of knowledge or mental perception: That consists in …

May 9, 2011 · Actually, I prefer unintuitive, but both of these are good choices, and probably better convey "user-unfriendliness" than does user-hostile, which in my opinion is a stronger …

The "inability to put oneself in the place of one without knowledge" is not the same as "knowledge that is unintuitive". I would either ask a new question or edit the current one.

My French origins (probably?) would have me intuitively write “all X-related things”, but it seems usage favours the construct “all things X-related”, or even without a hyphen: “all things X relate...

Dec 26, 2018 · I'm looking for a single word that can describe that a given process is overly formal in the sense that it requires plenty of steps or involves myriad subprocesses. For instance, …

Jul 13, 2020 · According to the Cambridge dictionary, Counterintuitive: Something that is counter-intuitive does not happen in the way you would expect it to and Contradiction: a fact or …

May 29, 2024 · English speakers typically find this unintuitive, but the typical explanation is that the name is from Irish and that's how it's pronounced in Irish, or something along those lines.

Dec 21, 2023 · John Gragson’s answer to How did the surname “Featherstonhaugh” get its completely unintuitive pronunciation? is pretty damn ingenious, and I commend him for it.

The meanings of these words are very similar: the sine of an angle in a right triangle is the ratio of the opposite side to the hypotenuse; the secant is the ratio of the hypotenuse to the adjacent...