Instincts is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for INSTINCTS in dictionary:

NOUN:
• INSTINCT, 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
ADJECTIVE:
• imbued or filled with (a quality, especially a desirable one)
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• an inborn behavioral pattern

Words related to INSTINCTS

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How to use INSTINCTS in a sentence

• His wonderful engineering instincts rose even above food instincts.
• All his strong instincts cried out to find Sandersen and, having found him, to shoot him and flee.
• Moggridge, as we know, had brains too, and interesting instincts for new things.
• He was liberal, generous, profuse, full of the best instincts of his nation.
• Clayton had the instincts of a gentleman, and realized the delicacy of the situation.
• The decorative methods and instincts of the two men were closely similar.
• We know more of the future than we are willing to admit, away down in those dim recesses of the soul where there is no reason, but only instincts and impressions.
• He is full of life and noble instincts, but thoughtless and impulsive.
• Those instincts that in him were so close to the surface suddenly leaped to life, shouting and clamoring, not to be resisted.
• An Indian who retained some instincts of humanity had informed him of what was on foot.
• Like the lower animals they obey their instincts and gratify their desires as they arise.
• But it will not take the false direction of ignoring these our profoundest and holiest instincts.
• Religion has virtually passed it by, and a gross and stupid materialism reigns, fatal alike to the things of the spirit and the finer instincts of life.
• Beasts and birds have instincts, and a certain amount of will and understanding, but no memory worth mentioning.
• He generally acted rightly, for his instincts were noble and kingly, and his heart as honest and open as the very light of day.
• The other, all his savage instincts primed for onslaught, saw menace in the movement, and stood braced and ready.
• It frequently happens that two or more of our instincts, inclinations, desires, are opposed to each other.
• The child is born without knowledge but with certain tendencies, instincts, capacities and potential strength or weakness.
• He accomplished apostolic work in both Wales and Scotland, but his seafaring instincts urged him to make missionary voyages to regions hitherto unknown.
• And the instinct, it will be admitted, is innocent, and human nature is preserved by our following the lead of its innocent instincts.
• Not only has he to contend with the promptings of his own instincts, but he has to contend with the instincts and to sustain the resolution of his whole army.
• All his instincts warned him that a new danger was at hand.
• Even the treatment of instincts has been misleading.
• It is, on the other hand, the outgrowth of a number of instincts all of which have been listed under the head of the social instinct.
• About this image risen in their midst, this paroxysm so frightful to our timid instincts, the silence spread in a circle in their souls like a terrific noise.
• Before, they had been beasts, their instincts fitly adapted to their surroundings, and happy as living things may be.
• That most fundamental and powerful of all instincts has therefore no chance for diffusion or social expression and like all confined forces, tends to degenerate.

Similar words containing STINCT without suffix s and without prefix in

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