adj. driven by impulse, spontaneous and without thinking.
the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
adj. Of or pertaining to instinct; derived from, or prompted by, instinct; of the nature of instinct; determined by natural impulse or propensity; acting or produced without reasoning, deliberation, instruction, or experience; spontaneous.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
Prompted by or of the nature of instinct.
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adj. unthinking; prompted by (or as if by) instinct
Word Usage
"The actions of man which have been loosely described as instinctive belong for the most part to those classes of actions which we have already shown to be in no proper sense of the word instinctive, that is, those concerned in the appetites and in the functions of organic life."