uninstinctive

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English

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Etymology

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From un- +‎ instinctive.

Adjective

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uninstinctive (not comparable)

  1. Not instinctive or lacking instinct.
    • 2020, Francisco Brines, Of Purest Blue: Poems, page 53:
      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.