Synonyms:
natural, instinctive
Meaning: unthinking; prompted by (or as if by) instinct; "a cat's natural aversion to water"; "offering to help was as instinctive as breathing"
Usage examples
"My native instinctive democracy--"
All was instinctive and spontaneous
How right events had proved this instinctive feeling.
Did you ever tell him the strong, instinctive motive?'
In this case, instinctive justice belies legal justice.
I felt the foreign gentleman took an instinctive dislike to me.
One writer claims that we do not even reason--that our every act is mechanical, or instinctive.
On the other hand, Minha felt for him an instinctive repulsion which she was at no pains to conceal.
'The instinctive want of faith, and clutching at a sin to keep myself from sinking,' said she bitterly.
But these actions are probably instinctive, so that they would be performed as well by a young animal as by an old one.