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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 :   [ gcide ]

  Instinctive \In*stinc"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.
     ``Instinctive motion.'' --Milton. ``Instinctive dread.''
     --Cowper.
     [1913 Webster]
  
           With taste instinctive give
           Each grace appropriate.                  --Mason.
     [1913 Webster]
  
           Have we had instinctive intimations of the death of
           some absent friends?                     --Bp. Hall.
     [1913 Webster]
  
     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.
          [1913 Webster]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) :   [ web1913 ]

  Instinctive \In*stinc"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.
     ``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.

From WordNet (r) 2.0 :   [ 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" [syn: natural]

From Greek Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-el-ALL-2023-07-27 ]

  instinctive
     Αγγλικά a.
     ενστικτώδης

From English Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-ALL-2023-07-27 ]

  instinctive
     French a.
     (feminine singular of fr instinctif)

From English Wiktionary: English language only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-en-2023-07-27 ]

  instinctive
     a.
     1 Related to or prompted by instinct.
     2 Driven by impulse, spontaneous and without thinking.

From English Wiktionary: Western, Greek, and Slavonic languages only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western_Greek_Slavonic-2023-07-27 ]

  instinctive
     French a.
     (feminine singular of fr instinctif)

From English Wiktionary: Western languages only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western-2023-07-27 ]

  instinctive
     French a.
     (feminine singular of fr instinctif)

From Finnish Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-fi-ALL-2023-07-27 ]

  instinctive
     Ranska a.
     (fr-a-taivm instinct ive)

From Swedish Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-sv-ALL-2023-07-27 ]

  instinctive
     Engelska a.
     instinktiv, reflexmässig

From English-Arabic FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.6.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ara ]

  Instinctive /ɪnstˈɪŋktɪv/
  فطري

From English-български език FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 :   [ freedict:eng-bul ]

  instinctive //ɪnˈstɪŋktɪv// 
  1. несъзнателен
  driven by impulse, spontaneous and without thinking
  2. инстинктивен
  related to or prompted by instinct

From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ces ]

  instinctive /ɪnstˈɪŋktɪv/
  instinktivní

From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 :   [ freedict:eng-deu ]

  instinctive /ɪnstˈɪŋktɪv/
  instinktiv, instinktmäßig 
     Synonym: instinctual
  

From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 :   [ freedict:eng-deu ]

  instinctive /ɪnstˈɪŋktɪv/
  unwillkürlich 
     Synonym: spontaneous
  

From English - Modern Greek XDXF/FreeDict dictionary ver. 0.1.1 :   [ freedict:eng-ell ]

  instinctive /ɪnstˈɪŋktɪv/
  
  ενστικτώδης

From English-suomi FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 :   [ freedict:eng-fin ]

  instinctive //ɪnˈstɪŋktɪv// 
  vaistomainen, vaistonvarainen 2.
  driven by impulse, spontaneous and without thinking
   3.
  related to or prompted by instinct

From English-Hindi FreeDict Dictionary ver. 1.6 :   [ freedict:eng-hin ]

  instinctive /ɪnstˈɪŋktɪv/ 
  1. स्वाभाविक
        "She has an instinctive affection towards the animals ."

From English-Hungarian FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.2.1 :   [ freedict:eng-hun ]

  instinctive /ɪnstˈɪŋktɪv/
  ösztönös

From English - Polish Piotrowski+Saloni/FreeDict dictionary ver. 0.2 :   [ freedict:eng-pol ]

  instinctive /ɪnˈstɪŋktɪv/ 
    instynktowny

From English-Svenska FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 :   [ freedict:eng-swe ]

  instinctive //ɪnˈstɪŋktɪv// 
  instinktiv 2.
  driven by impulse, spontaneous and without thinking
   3.
  related to or prompted by instinct

From IPA:en_US :   [ IPA:en_US ]

  

/ˌɪnˈstɪŋktɪv/

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :   [ moby-thesaurus ]

  82 Moby Thesaurus words for "instinctive":
     animal, animalian, animalic, animalistic, atavistic, automatic,
     beastlike, beastly, bestial, blind, bodily, born, brutal, brute,
     brutelike, brutish, coeval, compulsive, conditioned, congenital,
     connatal, connate, connatural, constitutional, dumb, forced,
     genetic, gut, hereditary, immediate, impulsive, in the blood,
     inborn, inbred, incarnate, indigenous, ingrained, inherent,
     inherited, innate, instinctual, intestinal, intrinsic, intuitional,
     intuitive, involuntary, irrational, libidinal, mechanical,
     mindless, native, native to, natural, natural to, nonrational,
     normal, organic, physical, primal, reflex, reflexive, regular,
     spontaneous, subconscious, subhuman, subliminal, temperamental,
     typical, unconscious, unintentional, unlearned, unmeditated,
     unpremeditated, unprompted, unthinking, unwilled, unwilling,
     unwitting, visceral, zoic, zooidal, zoologic
  
  

From Stardic English-Chinese Dictionary :   [ stardic ]

  a. 本能的,天生的,直觉的;

From XDICT the English-Chinese dictionary :   [ xdict ]

     a. 本能的,天生的,直觉的

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