adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a primal/instinctive/basic/natural urge (= a natural urge that all people have )
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Every animal has an instinctive urge to survive.
sb’s instinctive reaction (= what they do immediately, before thinking )
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Often your instinctive reaction is to blame someone else.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
feeling
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At best, they have an instinctive feeling for what will please people and make them like the product.
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Thus a parent's moral duty to protect his or her children is grounded in instinctive feelings proper to our species.
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Added to that is her instinctive feeling for people - what to do and say that will please them most.
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She had dismissed the instinctive feeling before, but it was still there, and Glyn had merely heightened it.
reaction
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Our instinctive reactions seem to be rooted in the past and they are not always appropriate to twentieth-century living.
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This instinctive reaction is independent of our intellect; the reaction does not depend on knowledge or intellectual assessment of risk.
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But pure, instinctive reaction moves his body out of harm's way.
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It is difficult to prevent this sort of instinctive reaction .
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It was an instinctive reaction in defence of my guest, but I felt uncomfortable about it afterwards.
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As a practising novelist, my instinctive reaction is to repudiate the deconstructionist position.
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The crying baby is being expressive, although her cries are not really language at all, but instinctive reactions to the environment.
response
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Capitalists resisted, which was an instinctive response , but also a rational one.
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That little bit of table-turning on Bob had been an instinctive response .
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They are, as l have argued earlier in this chapter, instinctive responses to the pre-linguistic prototypical behaviour of animals.
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But his instinctive response is direct.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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an instinctive sense of style
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He's considered a smart, instinctive politician.
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His instinctive reaction was to duck when he heard the shot, even though he knew it was pointless.
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White jazz seemed old and intellectual, whereas black jazz was vital, swinging, instinctive .