| 单词 | instinctive |
| 释义 | instinctive (once / 348 pages) adj The adjective instinctive describes something you do without thinking about it. If you have an instinctive desire to help animals, you might automatically stop your car to pick up every stray dog you see. Something that is instinctive occurs naturally, the way babies know how to cry and suck as soon as they're born. Adults also have instinctive reflexes — like yawning, or the reflex that makes you kick your leg when the doctor hits your knee with a rubber mallet. Sometimes your instinctive reflexes can save your life — like when the "fight or flight" instinct warns you that danger is present. WORD FAMILYinstinctive: instinctively+/instinct: instinctive, instinctly, instincts USAGE EXAMPLESMaybe he hopes Mr. Putin will see him as a kindred spirit: Big hombre, instinctive nationalist, zero use for liberals and their pieties. Wall Street Journal(Jan 02, 2017) Instead, some of them grew eccentric and adventurous, impulsive and experimental, instinctive and personal — at times, bordering on avant-garde. New York Times(Dec 22, 2016) For now, one popular suggestion by news-literacy educators is to tap teenagers’ instinctive aversion to people telling them what to think. Slate(Dec 21, 2016) adj unthinking; prompted by (or as if by) instinct offering to help was as instinctive as breathing Syn natural self-generated, spontaneous happening or arising without apparent external cause |
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