Synonyms:
instinct(p), replete(p)
Meaning: (followed by `with')deeply filled or permeated; "imbued with the spirit of the Reformation"; "words instinct with love"; "it is replete with misery"
noun
meaning of the word
Synonyms:
instinct, inherent_aptitude
Meaning: inborn pattern of behavior often responsive to specific stimuli; "the spawning instinct in salmon"; "altruistic instincts in social animals"
Usage examples
Instinct is not what it used to be.
A remnant of instinct guided her vaguely.
I suppose it is the deepest instinct in man."
"Instinct will carry you through the rest of it."
No, no, Wilfrid, your first instinct was the true one.
It was both an instinct and a principle with him to avoid waste.
At the same moment an instinct seemed to warn the struggling urchins.
Every instinct was rebelling against the calm she forced upon herself.
Of the parental instinct he had become aware several years before this.
He flung it straight at Woodhull's face--an act of chance, of instinct.