instinctive, instinctual

instinctive, instinctual
Relating to instinct.

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  • instinctual — instinctive, instinctual The normal adjective from instinct in everyday use is instinctive, which can refer to people and animals or to their behaviour and actions. Instinctual is used mainly in technical contexts such as psychology and… …   Modern English usage

  • instinctive — instinctive, instinctual The normal adjective from instinct in everyday use is instinctive, which can refer to people and animals or to their behaviour and actions. Instinctual is used mainly in technical contexts such as psychology and… …   Modern English usage

  • Instinctive drift — or instinctual drift is the tendency of an organism to revert to instinctive behaviors that can interfere with the conditioned response. The concept originated with B. F. Skinner s former students Keller and Marian Breland …   Wikipedia

  • instinctive — [adj] reflex, automatic accustomed, by seat of one’s pants*, congenital, habitual, impulsive, inborn, ingrained, inherent, innate, instinctual, intrinsic, intuitional, intuitive, involuntary, knee jerk*, mechanical, native, natural, normal,… …   New thesaurus

  • instinctive — adjective an instinctive understanding of machinery an instinctive urge to scream Syn: intuitive, natural, instinctual, innate, inborn, inherent; unconscious, subconscious, intuitional; automatic, reflex, knee jerk, mechanical, spontaneous,… …   Thesaurus of popular words

  • instinctive — instinctively, instinctually, adv. /in stingk tiv/, adj. 1. of, pertaining to, or of the nature of instinct. 2. prompted by or resulting from or as if from instinct; natural; unlearned: an instinctive will to survive. Also, instinctual /in stingk …   Universalium

  • instinctual — in·stinc·tu·al (ĭn stĭngkʹcho͞o əl) adj. Of, relating to, or derived from instinct. See Synonyms at instinctive.   in·stincʹtu·al·ly adv. * * * …   Universalium

  • instinctual — adjective Of, relating to, or derived from instinct. Syn: instinctive …   Wiktionary

  • instinctive — Synonyms and related words: animal, animalian, animalic, animalistic, atavistic, automatic, beastlike, beastly, bestial, blind, bodily, born, brutal, brute, brutelike, brutish, coeval, compulsive, conditioned, congenital, connatal, connate,… …   Moby Thesaurus

  • instinctive — I (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Automatic] Syn. mechanical, intuitive, reflex, unlearned; see automatic 2 , habitual 1 , inherent . 2. [Natural] Syn. spontaneous, accustomed, normal; see natural 1 , 2 , spontaneous . See Synonym Study at spontaneous .… …   English dictionary for students

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