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 answers where the word is used. …

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 negative than …

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 immediate …

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. I try to address both in my …

Jul 13, 2020 · If something is counterintuitive, it does not work in the way that you instinctively expect - for example, a swing door that you need to push from one side sometimes has a handle on that side …

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, some company …

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.

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.

Aug 15, 2022 · If I am in a family of six people, not including the speaker would suggest that I have a family of five, my wife and I have a family of four, while the children have a family of two. I find this …