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What is the adjective for instinctive?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verb instinctualize which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

instinctive
  1. Related to or prompted by instinct.
  2. Driven by impulse, spontaneous and without thinking.
  3. Synonyms:
      4. innate, natural, intuitive, instinctual, involuntary, spontaneous, inherent, inborn, ingrained, automatic, intrinsic, native, congenital, inbred, impulsive, unconscious, unthinking, unpremeditated, reflex, gut, mechanical, unlearned, emotional, intuitional, subconscious, untaught, visceral, rooted, mechanic, robotic, unconditioned, unprompted, subliminal, habitual, subjective, unmeditated, normal, regular, typical, accustomed, knee-jerk, hard-wired, second-nature, by seat of one's pants, hereditary, inherited, built-in, immanent, essential, constitutional … more
  4. Examples:
      5. “The striker's flick was instinctive and accurate enough to demand a goal-line clearance.”
      “The live firing practices included rapid-fire shoots enabling reconnaissance members to practice accurate instinctive shooting.”
      “Although he shared the Grierson gang's instinctive leftism, he was never quite trusted by them.”
instinct
  1. (archaic) Imbued, charged (with something).
instinctual
  1. Of, relating to, or derived from instinct.
  2. Synonyms:
      3. instinctive, innate, natural, inborn, inherent, involuntary, ingrained, spontaneous, automatic, native, intrinsic, intuitive, congenital, unthinking, mechanical, impulsive, gut, unlearned, mechanic, unpremeditated, intuitional, robotic, visceral, habitual, rooted, unprompted, animal, primaeval, primeval, primitive, unmeditated, normal, regular, typical, accustomed, knee-jerk, second-nature, by seat of one's pants, unconscious, reflex, inbred, hard-wired, built-in, hereditary, connate, connatural, inherited, constitutional, deep-seated, inbuilt … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “Perhaps it comes from an instinctual animal urge to have a throne or a perch.”
      “We are the rotted bags of meat moving to the next location, hoping to find a source of instinctual nourishment.”
      “Her passion seems instinctual, more like the weary empathy of Garbo, inseparable from her being.”
instinctualized
  1. simple past tense and past participle of instinctualize
instinctualizing
  1. present participle of instinctualize
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