Thesaurus: instinctive

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1. a. 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.
2. adj. unthinking; prompted by (or as if by) instinct
3. 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.
4. Of or pertaining to instinct; derived from, or prompted by,instinct; of the nature of instinct; determined by natural impulse orpropensity; 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 absentfriends Bp. Hall.
5. j:100 s unthinking; prompted by (or as if by) instinct