counterintuitive

Modifying Another Word

• somewhat: Some of our findings have been surprising and somewhat counterintuitive.
• quite: I automatically sympathize with those who feel this is all quite counterintuitive.

Modifies a noun

• result: Summary of Results of the Comparison My comparison yields what many would consider a counterintuitive result.
• consequence: We have seen that rival theories also have counterintuitive consequences.
• fact: It is a counterintuitive fact that the poorest of soils are usually the ones with the highest plant diversity.
• conclusion: It is no wonder then, the paper concludes, that it yields such counterintuitive conclusion for, e.g. , higher-order theories.
• situation: This marriage of structure with simplicity produces the counterintuitive situations in which there is little trade-off between being fast and frugal and being accurate.
• absurdity: This is the case because it is the application of SV to the real world which generates counterintuitive absurdities.

Used with adjective complement

• seem: That seemed counterintuitive for some people to hear a Texan say.
• sound: While it sounds counterintuitive, we have found the " use, build, design " approach to be highly effective.