instinctive
He instinctively saw that I needed help.
Kids instinctively look to their parents to judge whether all is right with the world.
If the bike starts to tip, we instinctively put our feet down.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Not expected or planned
abrupt end
abrupt halt
abruptly
abruptness
ad hoc
inadvertence
inadvertency
inadvertent
inadvertently
inconceivable
sine die
spirit
spontaneity
spontaneous
spontaneously
unsuspected
untimely
untoward
unwilled
unwitting

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Innate and congenital

Examples of instinctively

instinctively
Instinctively, they draw close to those whose goodwill, sympathy and courage they know.
This reviewer would instinctively regard such a view as controversial, but a considered debate of such an important issue can only be beneficial.
Instinctively we try to find the evocative side of each sound whose source is not revealed.
While these types of changes can be induced by contact with other languages, linguists tend instinctively to look for internal reasons.
These women instinctively sought to overturn the social order because of the congenital peculiarities of their bio-psychic constitutions.
It was to develop the kind of system, based on workers' self-management, that the workers' councils were demanding from an instinctively socialist position.
In fact many directors, instinctively appreciating their bogus status, have them 'played' by some of the party guests letting their hair down.
Instinctively, the prospect runs counter to our sensibilities.
They had their recipes in their mind and cooked instinctively according to familiar routines.
In contrast, the salesman with vitality was so commanding that others tended instinctively to follow his suggestions.
They are not instinctively democratic, and they believe in a true natural aristocracy.
Without excessive or overt scrutiny, the clerk decides, seemingly instinctively, which language to use with a given customer.
Acousmatic composers are instinctively aware of transmodal connections.
Having taken over the secondary schools as their natural preserves, the interwar graduates instinctively turned their attention to elementary schools.
Motivated by profits, survival, principle, or pride of personal proprietorship, employers instinctively opposed the surrender of their managerial independence.
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