Found 2 items, similar to Instinctive.
English → English (WordNet) Definition: instinctive 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]
English → English (gcide) Definition: Instinctive 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]