Instinct is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for INSTINCT in dictionary:

VERB:
• To impress, as an animating power, or instinct.
NOUN:
• an inborn impulse, intuition
• an innate, typically fixed pattern of behaviour in animals in response to certain stimuli
• a natural or intuitive way of acting or thinking
• a natural propensity or skill of a specified kind
• the fact or quality of possessing innate behaviour patterns
• inborn tendency to behave in a certain way
• inborn pattern of behavior often responsive to specific stimuli
ADJECTIVE:
• imbued or filled with (a quality, especially a desirable one)
• Urged or stimulated from within; naturally moved or impelled; imbued; animated; alive; quick; as, birds instinct with life.
• Natural inward impulse; unconscious, involuntary, or unreasoning prompting to any mode of action, whether bodily, or mental, without a distinct apprehension of the end or object to be accomplished.
• Specif., the natural, unreasoning, impulse by which an animal is guided to the performance of any action, without of improvement in the method.
• A natural aptitude or knack; a predilection; as, an instinct for order; to be modest by instinct.
• (followed by `with\')deeply filled or permeated
• animated or impelled (by)
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• an inborn behavioral pattern

Words related to INSTINCT

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Words that contain INSTINCT

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How to use INSTINCT in a sentence

• The examples of semi-fictional prose which can be gathered from this period serve only to illustrate how the short-story instinct, though stifled, was still present.
• A terror-stricken instinct told me that all was not right.
• All actions spring from self-love, which, guided at first by an immediate instinct, and later, by reason developed through experience, extends itself over ever widening spheres.
• Yet on its side genius, imagination, creative instinct, artistic apprehension, have not given their aid.
• The moon and stars were not to be seen, but instinct told him that it was not beyond midnight.
• He knew that he had been threatened by a formidable danger, and that instinct, more than anything else, had saved him.
• The instinct of the old actor was awakened in Caterna.
• Not only by experience but by instinct and character he was wholly fitted for life in the waste places.
• Instinct is necessary, indispensable to animals, because they cannot benefit by the traditions of their ancestors.
• But she knew by instinct that McTeague had money about him, and she did not intend to let it go out of the house.
• As yet there were many persons in the house, whose cry for life was strong as despair, and who clung to it with all the awakened powers of reason and instinct.
• So Max felt, showing thereby that he possessed an instinct of sane prudence which was, in the circumstances, better than bravery.
• This was a certain vague protective, almost maternal, instinct.
• They have the instinct of love, because it is their whole life, and of jealousy, because it is almost the only means by which they can control us.
• There was something underlying the charming expression and the fascinating manner which my instinct felt to be something wrong.
• A sudden instinct told her what the drift of that letter had been.
• Only we are aware, as by an instinct, that in the circle of our characters it is wholly ignored.
• The same mother instinct makes you take care of your own, and fight for your own.
• If having been acquired in one lifetime it is transmitted to offspring, it is an instinct in the offspring though it was not an instinct in the parent.
• This is especially the case with the phenomena of instinct, and in a lesser degree with those of reason and conscience.
• Yet, again, there is another misconception of the maternal instinct as it exists in our own species, which is still more serious in its results.
• He resumed his cautious passage through the undergrowth, and, the inherited instinct blossoming so suddenly into full flower, was still his guide.
• Weak or inferior men mistake the first for the last, whilst great souls know how to clothe the merely natural instinct in all the graces of the spirit.
• Fifty years ago, mothers relied upon tradition and maternal instinct in the care of their babies.
• I think I had an instinct that he was the head of an office.
• The herd will travel day and night, and instinct can be depended on to carry them to the only water they know.
• Some instinct of decency required that she should not allow Mrs.
• In doing this she is really falling back on an instinct.
• I would, similarly, grant the animals a reason, not such as we possess, but far above a blind instinct.
• Perhaps because I am a priest by instinct, I always discover in myself the instant need of prayer when confronted by the unusual and the difficult.

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