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Counter-intuitive

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coun⋅ter⋅in⋅tu⋅i⋅tive

  [koun-ter-in-too-i-tiv, -tyoo-]
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–adjective
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.
Origin:
1960–65; counter- + intuitive
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