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单词 instinctual
释义
instinctual
adjective
uk
/ɪnˈstɪŋk.tju.əl/us
/ɪnˈstɪŋk.tju.əl/
happeningnaturally, as aresultofinstinct,ratherthan beingthoughtabout,planned, ordevelopedbytraining:
本能的，直觉的
those whostruggletocontroltheirinstinctualpassions那些难以控制自己直觉情绪的人
He says hisdecisionsthatdaywere instinctual.他说那天是凭本能作出的决定。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Innate and congenital
  • American, Italian, etc. by birthphrase
  • birth
  • born
  • born and bredidiom
  • congenital
  • descend
  • descend fromsomething
  • heritable
  • inborn
  • inbred
  • inclined
  • inherit
  • inheritance
  • innate
  • innately
  • instinct
  • instinctive
  • instinctively
  • native
  • natural
(Definition ofinstinctualfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofinstinctual

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Modern attributions of causality to genetics, biology, or even theinstinctualinner world deny man's ability to exercise choice and responsibility about how one lives.
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How do our various theorists deal with this problem and still retain their theoretical stress uponinstinctualfreedom?
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This intervention on the male body as a covenantal symbol was a statement of human faith and human alteration against powerfulinstinctualresponse.
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We can transcendinstinctualand cultural influences by making reasons our motives for action.
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If my mind is configured in this way, then the feeling will be immediate and will feelinstinctual.
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Rather, they may be stable features of a general "instinctual" response tendency.
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All basic emotional systems are built aroundinstinctualaction processes, which are not as unconscious as many investigators assume.
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She had stamina, tears aplenty, aninstinctualunderstanding of political theatre and a capacity to deploy the language of affinity and fidelity to huge effect.
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They became standard partisan antiimages of ineptitude, selfishness,instinctualbehavior, and temerity.
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It reflects a sensory-focussed worldview where the body, its various brain representations, andinstinctualmotor action tendencies are relegated to an undeserved secondary status in emotion and consciousness studies.
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That approach to studying the nature of environmental input may be partly explained by the early interest in assessing the extent to which putatively "instinctualbehavior" required any environmental input.
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Freud pessimistically recognized the necessity for someinstinctualrepression, whilst allowing that there was more than was necessary and hoping that some marginal decrease would be possible.
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That is theinstinctualpreference of a bureaucracy in all circumstances.
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It is a conceptual,instinctualresponse by anybody, anywhere.
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The danger of ourinstinctualapproach to politics is that it clings to the familiar, and finds it difficult to assimilate novelties.
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