instinctive

instinctive
    adj 1: 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}, {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.
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         With taste instinctive give
         Each grace appropriate.                  --Mason.
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         Have we had instinctive intimations of the death of
         some absent friends?                     --Bp. Hall.
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   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.
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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