Dictionary Entry
instinct
instinct is a 8-letter English word with 7 senses as adjective, transitive verb, and noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Urged or stimulated from within; naturally moved or impelled; imbued; animated; alive; quick; as, birds instinct with life. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
8 letters · Scrabble 10 · Words With Friends 13 · 7 senses
Definitions
- 1adjective
Urged or stimulated from within; naturally moved or impelled; imbued; animated; alive; quick; as, birds instinct with life.
- 2adjective
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.
- 3adjective
Specif., the natural, unreasoning, impulse by which an animal is guided to the performance of any action, without of improvement in the method.
- 4adjective
A natural aptitude or knack; a predilection; as, an instinct for order; to be modest by instinct.
- 5transitive verb
To impress, as an animating power, or instinct.
- 6noun
inborn pattern of behavior often responsive to specific stimuli
"the spawning instinct in salmon"
"altruistic instincts in social animals"
- 7adjective
(followed by `with')deeply filled or permeated
"imbued with the spirit of the Reformation"
"words instinct with love"
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