instinctive
adjective
Origin of instinctive
Synonyms for instinctive
Related Words for instinctual
accustomed, congenital, habitual, impulsive, inborn, ingrained, inherent, innate, intrinsic, intuitive, involuntary, knee-jerk, mechanical, native, natural, normal, regular, rooted, spontaneous, typicalExamples from the Web for instinctual
Contemporary Examples of instinctual
To keep a commonplace is instinctual to intellectual cultivation.
Social Media: Nothing New? Commonplace Books As Predecessor to PinterestKelsey McKinney
August 16, 2012
Rather, there is a constant back-and-forth between the conscious and the unconscious, between the rational and the instinctual.
This was primal and instinctual and it gripped me like an invisible claw.
Style, she believes, is instinctual, however intellectual her insights might seem.
Still staring into her daughter's eyes, she reaches an instant, instinctual decision.
Historical Examples of instinctual
I have the calling card of reason plus an instinctual nature.
The Land of Look BehindPaul Cameron Brown
It was once, when men were primitively close to Nature, instinctual knowledge.
Incredible AdventuresAlgernon Blackwood
Phildee's probe swept past the laboring mind directly into her telepathic, instinctual centers.
Riya's FoundlingAlgirdas Jonas Budrys