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Instinctive
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What's The Definition Of Instinctive?
[adj] unthinking; prompted by (or as if by) instinct; "a cat's natural aversion to water"; "offering to help was as instinctive as breathing"
Synonyms | Synonyms for Instinctive: natural | self-generated | spontaneous Related Terms | Find terms related to Instinctive: animal | animalian | animalic | animalistic | atavistic | automatic | beastlike | beastly | bestial | blind | bodily | born | brutal | brute | brutelike | brutish | coeval | compulsive | conditioned | congenital | connatal | connate | connatural | constitutional | dumb | forced | genetic | gut | hereditary | immediate | impulsive | in the blood | inborn | inbred | incarnate | indigenous | ingrained | inherent | inherited | innate | instinctual | intestinal | intrinsic | intuitional | intuitive | involuntary | irrational | libidinal | mechanical | mindless | native | native to | natural | natural to | nonrational | normal | organic | physical | primal | reflex | reflexive | regular | spontaneous | subconscious | subhuman | subliminal | temperamental | typical | unconscious | unintentional | unlearned | unmeditated | unpremeditated | unprompted | unthinking | unwilled | unwilling | unwitting | visceral | zoic | zooidal | zoologic See Also | Instinctive In Webster's Dictionary \In*stinc"tive\, a. [Cf. F. instinctif.]
Of or pertaining to instinct; derived from, or prompted by,
instinct; of the nature of instinct; determined by natural
impulse or propensity; acting or produced without reasoning,
deliberation, instruction, or experience; spontaneous.
``Instinctive motion.'' --Milton. ``Instinctive dread.''
--Cowper.
With taste instinctive give Each grace appropriate.
--Mason.
Have we had instinctive intimations of the death of
some absent friends? --Bp. Hall.
Note: The terms instinctive belief, instinctive judgment,
instinctive cognition, are expressions not ill adapted
to characterize a belief, judgment, or cognition,
which, as the result of no anterior consciousness, is,
like the products of animal instinct, the intelligent
effect of (as far as we are concerned) an unknown
cause. --Sir H. Hamilton.
Syn: Natural; voluntary; spontaneous; original; innate;
inherent; automatic.
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