INSTINCTIVE
\ɪnstˈɪŋktɪv], \ɪnstˈɪŋktɪv], \ɪ_n_s_t_ˈɪ_ŋ_k_t_ɪ_v]\
Definitions of INSTINCTIVE
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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unthinking; prompted by (or as if by) instinct; "a cat's natural aversion to water"; "offering to help was as instinctive as breathing"
By Princeton University
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unthinking; prompted by (or as if by) instinct; "a cat's natural aversion to water"; "offering to help was as instinctive as breathing"
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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Instinctively.
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Prompted by instinct: involuntary: acting according to or determined by natural impulse.
By Daniel Lyons
By James Champlin Fernald
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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Relating to or caused by instinct; as instinctive actions. See Emotional. Those instinctive actions of animals which are owing to impressions made on the sensory ganglia, exciting respondent motor influences that are propagated to the various muscles of the body, are termed consensual. Consensual movements which accompany voluntary efforts without our consciousness are termed associated, (F.) Associes.
By Robley Dunglison
