Word Meaning

Meaning of instinct

- Urged or stimulated from within; naturally moved or impelled; imbued; animated; alive; quick; as, birds instinct with life.
- 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.
- Specif., the natural, unreasoning, impulse by which an animal is guided to the performance of any action, without of improvement in the method.
- A natural aptitude or knack; a predilection; as, an instinct for order; to be modest by instinct.
- To impress, as an animating power, or instinct.

Crossword clue for instinct

- Hunch
- Innate feeling
- Innate impulse
- Intuitive power
- Primal urge
- Sharon Stone’s basic intuition?
- Sixth sense
- Sixth sense tells me that tavern smelt very bad?