English-Portuguese translations for instinct

• instinto
  Os meus instintos são liberais nesta matéria. My own instincts are liberal on this.
  O instinto pende para o encobrimento.The instinct is to cover things up.
  O Conselho Europeu que encerrou em Bruxelas no Sábado passado seguiu o mesmo instinto. The European Council which closed in Brussels last Saturday followed the same instinct.

Definition of instinct

• A natural or inherent impulse or behaviour
• An intuitive reaction not based on rational conscious thought
• Imbued, charged ( something

Examples

• Many animals fear fire by instinct.
• an instinct for order; to be modest by instinct
• Debbies instinct was to distrust John.

Related words

• instinctive
• instinctively
• instinctual
• instinctually
• instinctivity
• instinctif
• instinct of self-preservation
• instinct shooting
• instinctive behavior