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English Dictionary: instinctive	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for instinctive
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
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" Synonym(s): natural, instinctive
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Instinctive \Instinc"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. [bd]Instinctive* motion.[b8] --Milton. [bd]Instinctive dread.[b8] --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.