Usually means: Against what one would expect.
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  1. counterintuitively: Merriam-Webster
  2. counterintuitively: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
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  4. counterintuitively: Wordnik
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  8. counterintuitively: FreeDictionary.org
  9. counterintuitively: Mnemonic Dictionary
  10. counterintuitively: TheFreeDictionary.com

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Definitions from Wiktionary (counterintuitively)

▸ adverb:  In a manner contrary to intuition or common sense.

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unintuitively, nonintuitively, irrationally, unconventionally, unorthodoxly, uncustomarily, nonconventionally, contrarianly, weirdly, intuitionistically, more...

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unintuitively, nonintuitively, irrationally, unconventionally, unorthodoxly, uncustomarily, nonconventionally, contrarianly, weirdly, intuitionistically, more...



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