Synonyms for counterintuitive
ˌkaʊn tər ɪnˈtu ɪ tɪv, -ˈtyu-coun·ter·in·tu·itive

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1. counterintuitiveadjective

   Antonyms:
   intuitive

2. counterintuitiveadjective

   Antonyms:
   intuitive

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1. counterintuitiveadjective

   contrary to what common sense would suggest

   Antonyms:
   sensible, reasonable

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1. List of paraphrases for "counterintuitive":

   illogical

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1. Sasha Skoda:

   It seems counterintuitive that in a year where most people were stuck at home, demand for high-value handbags was incredibly strong.

2. Christopher Slobogin:

   Lay people tend to think of people with mental illness as extremely dangerous, and that also influences jurors, especially if someone has killed someone, usually there's evidence of intent and planning that seems to be counterintuitive to the lay view of mental illness.

3. David Bakula:

   Vinyl is driven by independent record stores and consumers who are into sound quality and tangible, physical products, everything about the technology revolution is counterintuitive to vinyl sales, and yet, it still increases.

4. State John Kerry:

   It is counterintuitive, but the truth is that notwithstanding the threat of ISIL, notwithstanding people being beheaded publicly and burned publicly and the atrocities that they are perpetrating. And it is a serious, serious challenge to us, notwithstanding that, there is actually less threat and less probability of people dying in some sort of violent conflict today than at any time in human history.

5. Michael Blum:

   It's sort of counterintuitive, you think, in these flood-affected areas, these things should be wiped out. But really, things get wiped out, but they come back very quickly. They can become much more abundant than they were prior to flooding.