instinct

instinct has 7 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 8.

Definitions

• a.. Urged or stimulated from within; naturally moved or impelled; imbued; animated; alive; quick; as, birds instinct with life.
• a.. 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.
• a.. Specif., the natural, unreasoning, impulse by which an animal is guided to the performance of any action, without of improvement in the method.
• a.. A natural aptitude or knack; a predilection; as, an instinct for order; to be modest by instinct.
• v. t.. To impress, as an animating power, or instinct.
• n.. inborn pattern of behavior often responsive to specific stimuli; "the spawning instinct in salmon"; "altruistic instincts in social animals"
• a.. (followed by `with')deeply filled or permeated; "imbued with the spirit of the Reformation"; "words instinct with love"; "it is replete with misery"