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Instinctive

Instinctive Definition And Meaning
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.

Instinctive Definition And Meaning

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

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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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