instinctive as an adjective: - 1
instinctive
adjective
1 instinctive
Unthinking; prompted by (or as if by) instinct:
— Offering to help was as instinctive as breathing.
synonym: natural.
Roget 5:
derived from within,
subjective;
intrinsic,
intrinsical†;
fundamental,
normal;
implanted,
inherent,
essential,
natural;
innate,
inborn,
inbred,
ingrained,
inwrought;
coeval with birth,
genetous†,
haematobious†,
syngenic†;
radical,
incarnate,
thoroughbred,
hereditary,
inherited,
immanent;
congenital,
congenite†;
connate,
running in the blood;
ingenerate†,
ingenite†;
indigenous;
in the grain
etc.
n.;
bred in the bone,
instinctive;
inward,
internal
etc.
221;
to the manner born;
virtual.
characteristic
etc.
(special)
79,
(indicative)
550;
invariable,
incurable,
incorrigible,
ineradicable,
fixed.
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Roget 612:
extemporaneous,
impulsive,
indeliberate†;
snap;
improvised,
improvisate†,
improvisatory†;
unpremeditated,
unmeditated;
improvise;
unprompted,
unguided;
natural,
unguarded;
spontaneous
etc.
(voluntary)
600;
instinctive
etc.
601.
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Roget 477:
intuitive,
instinctive,
impulsive;
independent of reason,
anterior to reason;
gratuitous,
hazarded;
unconnected.
unreasonable,
illogical,
false,
unsound,
invalid;
unwarranted,
not following;
inconsequent,
inconsequential;
inconsistent;
absonous†,
absonant†;
unscientific;
untenable,
inconclusive,
incorrect;
fallacious,
fallible;
groundless,
unproved;
non sequitur [Lat.],
it does not follow.
deceptive,
sophistical,
jesuitical;
illusive,
illusory;
specious,
hollow,
plausible,
ad captandum [Lat.],
evasive;
irrelevant
etc.
10.
weak,
feeble,
poor,
flimsy,
loose,
vague.
irrational;
nonsensical
etc.
(absurd)
497.
foolish
etc.
(imbecile)
499;
frivolous,
pettifogging,
quibbling;
finespun†,
overrefined†.
at the end of one's tether,
au bout de son latin.
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Roget 601:
necessary,
needful
etc.
(requisite)
630.
fated;
destined
etc.
v.;
elect;
spellbound compulsory
etc.
(compel)
744;
uncontrollable,
inevitable,
unavoidable,
irresistible,
irrevocable,
inexorable;
avoidless†,
resistless.
involuntary,
instinctive,
automatic,
blind,
mechanical;
unconscious,
unwitting,
unthinking;
unintentional
etc.
(undesigned)
621;
impulsive
etc.
612.
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Polish: naturalny
Moby thesaurus: 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 ... show more.
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