Crossword-Solution: INSTINCT 8 letters, 42 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 10

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Word Word Type Definition
Instinct a. Urged or stimulated from within; naturally moved or
impelled; imbued; animated; alive; quick; as, birds instinct with life.
Instinct a. Natural inward impulse; unconscious, involuntary, or
unreasoning prompting to any mode of action, whether bodily, or mental,
without a distinct apprehension of the end or object to be
accomplished.
Instinct a. Specif., the natural, unreasoning, impulse by which an
animal is guided to the performance of any action, without of
improvement in the method.
Instinct a. A natural aptitude or knack; a predilection; as, an
instinct for order; to be modest by instinct.
Instinct v. t. To impress, as an animating power, or instinct.

We have 42 clues for the answer “INSTINCT”

Clue Answers
migrate Geese formation 1 answer
1992 thriller "Basic _____" 1 answer
Doing what comes naturally 1 answer
INBORN and rigid pattern of behavior/behaviour (of animals) 1 answer
INBORN tendency 1 answer
INNATE impulse 1 answer
INNATE propensity 1 answer
Inborn behavior 1 answer
Inborn pattern of activity 1 answer
Innate behaviour 1 answer
Intuition, sixth sense 1 answer
Migrate Why geese 1 answer
Quality that can't be taught 1 answer
Self-preservation, e.g. 1 answer
Why geese migrate 1 answer
You might not think to use it 1 answer
inborn pattern of behavior often responsive to specific stimuli 1 answer
inborn tendency to behave in a certain way 1 answer
Natural impulse. 2 answers
Natural inclination 4 answers
NATURAL aptitude 4 answers
ON a gamble 6 answers
Gut reaction? 6 answers
Natural ability 8 answers
Gut feeling 9 answers
A NATURAL REACTION 10 answers
illogic 18 answers
imbued 21 answers
APPETENCE 30 answers
Intuition 31 answers
Knack 39 answers
Flair 40 answers
Sense 45 answers
Insight 46 answers
ideality 48 answers
Impulse 52 answers
propulsion 63 answers
Bent 64 answers
Inspiration 71 answers
Tendency 73 answers
Behavior. 74 answers
behaviour 78 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ETAER
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with INSTINCT (5)

Tootles hated the idea of signing under such a man, but an instinct told him that it would be prudent to lay the responsibility on an absent person; and though a somewhat silly boy, he knew that mothers alone are always willing to be the buffer.
Peter Pan James M. Barrie 1991
She was never very communicative about her own affairs, and when she came to the point, an instinct told her that about such things she and Marie would not understand one another.
O Pioneers! Willa Cather 1991
Beside her, Oak now noticed a little calf about a day old, looking idiotically at the two women, which showed that it had not long been accustomed to the phenomenon of eyesight, and often turning to the lantern, which it apparently mistook for the moon, inherited instinct having as yet had little time for correction by experience.
Far from the Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy 1992
There was always a prophetic instinct, a low whisper in my ear, that within no long period, and whenever a new change of custom should be essential to my good, change would come.
The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne 1992
She has had no instruction in voice at all, and I shrink from handing her over to anybody; her own instinct about it has been so good.
The Song of the Lark Willa Cather 1992

Quotes with INSTINCT (3)

Every instinct that is found in any man is in all men. The strength of the emotion may not be so overpowering, the barriers against possession not so insurmountable, the urge to accomplish the desire less keen. With some, inhibitions and urges may be neutralized by other tendencies. But with every being the primal emotions are there. All men have an emotion to kill; when they strongly dislike some one they involuntarily wish he was dead. I have never killed any one, but I hav…
Clarence Darrow The Story of My Life
Your kids pissing you off is an inborn instinct. It's nature's way of getting you to kick them out when they turn 18! Okaaay. ~sigh~ Due to the times, you can kick them out between the ages of 28-38. Can someone please dramatically reduce the cost of housing, already?~SHEESH~
Dakota Dawn
There is something in the depths of our being that hungers for wholeness and finality. Because we are made for eternal life, we are made for an act that gathers up all the powers and capacities of our being and offers them simultaneously and forever to God. The blind spiritual instinct that tells us obscurely that our owns lives have a particular importance and purpose, and which urges us to find out our vocation, seeks in so doing to bring us to a decision that will dedicate…
Thomas Merton No Man Is an Island
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Appears in: LAT, Newsday, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.

Used 10 times in crossword archives (1957–2022).