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Counterintuitive Definition

contrary to what common sense would suggest.

Sentence Examples

Walking on water is counterintuitive.

"What you are doing right now is counterintuitive."

Time traveling is a counterintuitive scientific idea.

The material has half the density of the original state. This is counterintuitive to the laws of physics.

Quantum mechanics is full of counterintuitive concepts.

"The experimental results are counterintuitive".

It is "counterintuitive" because the world works in ways almost exactly opposite to the way you think it does.

The counterintuitive approaches to treat diseases.

These physical facts are counterintuitive.

What is counterintuitive for one may be intuitive for another.

Quantum mechanics or general relativity may sound counterintuitive to a layman, while they may be intuitive to a particle physicist.

This result is highly counterintuitive, to me at least.

"It's counterintuitive, I know, but just look at the numbers."