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uninstinctive

uninstinctive adjective: not instinctive or lacking instinct.

Adjective

uninstinctive (not comparable)

  1. Not instinctive or lacking instinct.
    • The pitch of perfection is the human head, free of the fire of joy and of sorrow; neither haughty nor bowed down beneath the arch of the blue sky, so still the gaze that it leaves on the uninstinctive horses, on the tree of no natural growth.2020, Francisco Brines, Of Purest Blue: Poems, page 53

Origin of uninstinctive

From un- + instinctive.

Questions about uninstinctive

What does uninstinctive mean?
Uninstinctive means not instinctive or lacking instinct.
What part of speech is uninstinctive?
Uninstinctive is an adjective.

Words near uninstinctive in the dictionary

  1. uninstantiation
  2. uninstantiations
  3. uninstated
  4. uninstigated
  5. uninstilled
  6. uninstinctive
  7. uninstituted
  8. uninstitutionalizable
  9. uninstitutionalized
  10. uninstructable
  11. uninstructed

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