Uninstinctive

adj

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Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Not instinctive or lacking instinct. not-comparable

    "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."

Example

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"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."

Etymology

From un- + instinctive.

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