释义 |
ˈinstinctless, a. [instinct n. + -less.] Without or lacking instinct.
1890W. James Princ. Psychol. I. ii. 77 Schrader gives a striking account of the instinctless condition of his brainless pigeons. 1947A. Einstein Mus. Romantic Era xiii. 181 This return [to antiquity]..was no longer inspired by the reverential Classicism of the 18th century, but rather by the indiscriminate and instinctless ‘learnedness’ of the 19th. |