Instinctive

a.

1.

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. With taste instinctive give Each grace appropriate. - Mason. Have we had instinctive intimations of the death of some absent friends? - Bp. Hall.

Adj.

1.

instinctive - unthinking; prompted by (or as if by) instinct; "a cat's natural aversion to water"; "offering to help was as instinctive as breathing" Synonyms: natural

animal, animalian, animalic, animalistic, atavistic, beastlike, beastly, bestial, blind, bodily, born, brutal, brute, brutelike, brutish, coeval, compulsive, conditioned, congenital, connatal, connate, connatural, constitutional, dumb, forced, genetic, gut, hereditary, immediate, 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, subconscious, subhuman, subliminal, temperamental, typical, unconscious, unintentional, unlearned, unmeditated, unpremeditated, unprompted, unthinking, unwilled, unwilling, unwitting, visceral, zoic, zooidal, zoologic

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