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Definition of instinctive

"instinctive" in the adjective sense

1. natural, instinctive

unthinking prompted by (or as if by) instinct

"a cat's natural aversion to water"

"offering to help was as instinctive as breathing"

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Quotations for instinctive

Women have a divine instinctive feeling for misfortune. [ French ]

An instinctive taste teaches men to build their churches in flat countries with spire-steeples, which, as they cannot be referred to any other object, point as with silent finger to the sky and stars. [ Coleridge ]

The instinctive and universal taste of mankind selects flowers for the expression of its finest sympathies, their beauty and their fleetingness serving to make them the most fitting symbols of those delicate sentiments for which language itself seems almost too gross a medium. [ G. S. Hillard ]

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instinctive in Scrabble®

The word instinctive is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required. Because it is longer than 7 letters, you would have to play off an existing word or do it in several moves.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 16

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays In The Letters instinctive:

INSTINCTIVE
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Seven Letter Word Alert: (6 words)

incites, intents, invects, invents, invites, tiniest

 

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instinctive in Words With Friends™

The word instinctive is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required. Because it is longer than 7 letters, you would have to play off an existing word or do it in several moves.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 20

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Play In The Letters instinctive:

INSTINCTIVE
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Seven Letter Word Alert: (6 words)

incites, intents, invects, invents, invites, tiniest

 

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Words within the letters of instinctive

2 letter words in instinctive (4 words)

eninisit

3 letter words in instinctive (19 words)

cisensiceinninsitsnetnitsetsicsinsittentettictietinvetvie

4 letter words in instinctive (31 words)

centciteicesinnsnestnetsneviniceninenitssectsentsinesitesnittenstenttestticstiestinetinstintveinventvestvetsviceviesvinevise

5 letter words in instinctive (23 words)

centscitescivetevictinsetiviesninesscentsincesitinsteinstentstintstivetentstinestintsveinsveninventsvicesvinesvisit

6 letter words in instinctive (15 words)

citiescivetsevictsiciestincestinciseinciteinsectintentinvectinventinvestinvitenicesttennis

7 letter words in instinctive (6 words)

incitesintentsinvectsinventsinvitestiniest

8 letter words in instinctive (3 words)

incisiveinstincttinniest

11 letter words in instinctive (1 word)

instinctive

instinctive + 2 blanks (3 words)

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Words containing the sequence instinctive

Words that start with instinctive (2 words)

instinctiveinstinctively

Words with instinctive in them (1 word)

instinctive

Words that end with instinctive (2 words)

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Word Growth involving instinctive

Shorter words in instinctive

in ins instinct

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instinctively

noninstinctive