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instinctual

/in-stingk-tiv/US // ɪnˈstɪŋk tɪv //UK // (ɪnˈstɪŋktɪv) //

本能的,本能,本能地,直觉

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : of, relating to, or of the nature of instinct.
    • : prompted by or resulting from or as if from instinct; natural; unlearned: an instinctive will to survive.

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Examples

  • To keep a commonplace is instinctual to intellectual cultivation.

  • Rather, there is a constant back-and-forth between the conscious and the unconscious, between the rational and the instinctual.

  • This was primal and instinctual and it gripped me like an invisible claw.

  • Style, she believes, is instinctual, however intellectual her insights might seem.

  • Still staring into her daughter's eyes, she reaches an instant, instinctual decision.

  • Phildee's probe swept past the laboring mind directly into her telepathic, instinctual centers.

  • I have the calling card of reason plus an instinctual nature.

  • Still, though a behaviorist, he upheld certain instinctual motivation theories.

  • One concerns the human desire to form an alliance in the form of family, which seems almost instinctual.

  • It was once, when men were primitively close to Nature, instinctual knowledge.