instinctive
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4.1
- adjective
- /ɪnˈstɪŋktɪv/
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instintivo
- Her response to the sudden loud noise was purely instinctive, as she jumped back without thinking.
- instinctive response
- instinctive fear
- instinctive behavior
I think most of them were instinctive writers.
- I think most of them were instinctive writers.
- They do have some very fine instinctive response to situations.
- I just felt this like gut instinctive certainty that things were good.
- I just see what's in front of me and it's a very instinctive reaction to the surface.
- And I don't know, I suppose I'm very instinctive.
- We, we had this freedom to to go and sort of be instinctive and just run, run all day.
- What's your instinctive response to someone upsetting you in an argument?
- And it's, it's, I think it's an instinctive thing.
- Geoffrey Howe more recently said that she was an instinctive thinker.
- Now, the narrator doesn't actually say that it is merely instinctive, just that some claim that.
- Now, they've never heard The Lone Ranger before, but they had an instinctive response to that rhythm.
- And so everything in the moment you're tapping into your instinctive realm, everything is activated.
Examples
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I just see what's in front of me and it's a very instinctive reaction to the surface.
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What's your instinctive response to someone upsetting you in an argument?
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Something is released from you, something instinctive, something built on training.
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And it's, it's, I think it's an instinctive thing.
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It's just an instinctive thing, I suppose.
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At the time, I felt the need to remain instinctive and not technical about what I was doing.
Academic text (1998) -
Was that an instinctive reaction?
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I suppose I was a kind of instinctive rebel.
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By now, they felt nothing but the instinctive wish to be rescued.
Fiction book (1992) -
And those structures are our emotional and instinctive responses to our environment.
Synonyms
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1.0
Normal and healthy for the body or mind
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4.2
Happening naturally without planning or outside cause
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3.7
Done without thinking, like a quick natural reaction
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5.5
Felt without thinking, like a quick natural reaction
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4.2
A quick natural reaction that happens without thinking
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6.8
An automatic action that happens without thinking, often a body reaction
Happens automatically without thinking as a quick response to something
Happens before logical thought and comes from instinct or feeling
Antonyms
Compounds
- Specialized
An automatic body response to a touch or sound that happens without thinking
How Automatic
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Instinctive comes from the word instinct, which comes from Latin instinctus meaning 'a push' or 'an inner urge'. So an instinctive action is one you do because of that inner push, without thinking.