English-Thai Dictionary

instinctive

ADJ เกี่ยวกับ สัญชาตญา ณ  เกี่ยวกับ นิสัย ดั้งเดิม  ที่ เกิดขึ้น ทันทีทันใด โดย ไม่ได้ ผ่าน กระบวนการ คิด  kiao-kab-san-chad-ti-yan

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

INSTINCTIVE

a.Prompted by instinct; spontaneous; acting without reasoning, deliberation, instruction or experience; determined by natural impulse or propensity. The propensity of bees to form hexagonal cells for holding their honey and their young, must be instinctive.

 

INSTINCTIVELY

adv. By force of instinct; without reasoning, instruction or experience; by natural impulse.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

INSTINCTIVE

In *stinc "tive, a. Etym: [Cf. F. instinctif. ]

 

Defn: 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.

 

INSTINCTIVELY

INSTINCTIVELY In *stinc "tive *ly, adv.

 

Defn: In an instinctive manner; by force of instinct; by natural impulse.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

instinctive

in stinc tive |inˈstiNG (k )tiv ɪnˈstɪŋ (k )tɪv | ▶adjective relating to or prompted by instinct; apparently unconscious or automatic: an instinctive distaste for conflict. • (of a person ) doing or being a specified thing apparently naturally or automatically: an instinctive writer. DERIVATIVES in stinc tive ly adverb usage: Instinctive and instinctual both mean ‘relating to or prompted by instinct; unlearned, natural, automatic. ’ Instinctual (like processual and other similar formations ) is a variant usually found in learned journals of the social sciences.

 

Oxford Dictionary

instinctive

in ¦stinct |ive |ɪnˈstɪŋ (k )tɪv | ▶adjective relating to or prompted by instinct; done without conscious thought: an instinctive distaste for conflict. • (of a person ) doing or being a specified thing apparently naturally or automatically: he was an instinctive cook. DERIVATIVES instinctively adverb

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

instinctive

instinctive adjective an instinctive understanding of machinery | an instinctive urge to scream: intuitive, natural, instinctual, innate, inborn, inherent; unconscious, subconscious, intuitional; automatic, reflex, knee-jerk, mechanical, spontaneous, involuntary, impulsive; informal gut, second nature. ANTONYMS learned, voluntary.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

instinctive

instinctive adjective an instinctive understanding of machines | his instinctive reaction is to blame someone else: intuitive, natural, innate, inborn, inherent, inbred, instinctual, unconscious, subconscious, subliminal, emotional, intuitional, untaught, unlearned; automatic, reflex, knee-jerk, mechanical, spontaneous, involuntary, impulsive, unconditioned, unthinking, unpremeditated; informal gut. ANTONYMS learned; conscious; voluntary.

 

French Dictionary

instinctivement

instinctivement adv. adverbe Par instinct. : Il a répondu oui instinctivement. SYNONYME spontanément . Prononciation La lettre c se prononce, [ɛ̃stɛ̃ktivmɑ̃ ]

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

instinctive

in stinc tive /ɪnstɪ́ŋ (k )tɪv /形容詞 比較なし 本能的な, 本能による 〈行動 〉, 本能に誘発される 〈衝動 〉, 直感による 〈気持ち 〉; とっさの 〈反応 〉.

 

instinctively

in st í nc tive ly 副詞 本能的に, 直感的に 〈わかる 〉; 〖しばしば文頭で 〗とっさに, 反射的に, 思わず .