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    instinctive
    [ adj ]
    unthinking; prompted by (or as if by) instinct
    <adj.all>
    a cat's natural aversion to wateroffering to help was as instinctive as breathing


    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.

    1. Where Osborne scored was to do it on stage: where all of them gained in publicity was in the way they were taken up by the popular press. Tynan was also wrong in one main respect: there was no 'instinctive leftishness' about Osborne.
    2. Mr Kenneth Clarke and Mr Douglas Hurd do not share Mr Heseltine's instinctive view that Britain should participate in all projects European.
    3. My acting style is instinctive and I try to become the person I'm playing.
    4. This reflects the instinctive view of most Americans that their economic futures will be determined mainly by their own efforts in this hemisphere.
    5. 'I was a jangle of complexes and inhibitions, with the instinctive snarl of the mongrel waiting to be kicked, without a shred of self-confidence or dignity.'
    6. The garden is accepted as a work of art by both cultures and, even in our mutual decadence, a sense of long historical continuity is still strong and instinctive.
    7. Where independent central bankers have no mandate or instinctive inclination to address problems of deflation they may be slow to respond to a sustained contraction in demand.
    8. It is evident that the instinctive advice of the President's shaken advisers, a Reagan-Rostenkowski-Byrd-Bentsen-Wright Budget Summit, can't calm the markets.
    9. Nujoma, 60, has little formal education, but is considered a shrewd, instinctive politician who has maintained leadership of his organization despite several challenges over the years.
    10. His most controversial findings suggested that innate and instinctive behavior in animals, such as aggression, might be instinctive in humans as well.
    11. His most controversial findings suggested that innate and instinctive behavior in animals, such as aggression, might be instinctive in humans as well.
    12. Although he was an instinctive dissident and hated the omnipresent pictures of Lenin he saw as a child, Mr. Brodsky is not at all such a political animal as Alexander Solzhenitsyn, the last Russian writer to win the Nobel Prize.
    13. Hong Kong's strong tradition of free trade, free capital flows and banking secrecy makes for instinctive resistance to regulatory intervention.
    14. His instinctive dislike of acquisitions does not sit comfortably with Glaxo's need to position itself in a changing market, or its prodigious accumulation of cash.
    15. Mr. Harnisch's instinctive, intuitive approach to this situation is one of the qualities that makes him an expert stock picker.
    16. George Ortiz's response to art has always been instinctive and emotional.
    17. The hierarchy of the governing Conservative Party, once the preserve of bluebloods, is increasingly dominated by "go-getters" of Prime Minister Thatcher's decade in power, instinctive conservatives often from modest backgrounds.
    18. Yet the idea of atonement through suffering can be a deeply held, almost instinctive one, outside the church as well as within it.
    19. His views were controversial, and they became even more controversial when he suggested that such instinctive behavior might be important in humans, too.
    20. For many companies, the instinctive first response is to cut costs.
    21. Those who have worked with him speak of his instinctive feeling for the music, backed by extensive study of contemporary sources.
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