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"instinct" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

instinct sustantivo

sustantivo + instinct
Kolokacji: 20
survival instinct • killer instinct • gut instinct • animal instinct • herd instinct • ...
instinct + verbo
Kolokacji: 32
instinct tells • instinct makes • instinct warns • instinct says • instinct leads • ...
verbo + instinct
Kolokacji: 13
trust one's instincts • follow one's instincts • rely on one's instincts • get instincts • appeal to one's instincts • ...
adjetivo + instinct
Kolokacji: 102
natural instinct • Basic Instinct • maternal instinct • good instinct • political instinct • human instinct • ...
frequent collocations
Kolokacji: 9
collocations grouped by meanings
Grup znaczeniowych: 30
(1) natural, keen, blind, sharp, innate, ...
Kolokacji: 7
(2) Basic, base, noble
Kolokacji: 3
(3) maternal, paternal, motherly, parental
Kolokacji: 4
1. maternal instinct = instynkt macierzyński maternal instinct
Maternal Instinct
2. paternal instinct = ojcowski instynkt paternal instinct
  • And I've kind of kept to that - but my paternal instincts have become very strong.
  • If paternal instincts had evolved simply for the good of their children, fathers shouldn't care whether they're sleeping with the mother.
  • He was so lacking in the paternal instinct, he seriously considered putting at least one of them up for adoption.
  • The students have provided, he says, an outlet for his natural paternal instincts.
  • Soon their paternal instincts take hold, and they grow attached to the child.
  • Louka appears proud to have no paternal instincts at all.
  • Keen for a big family himself, he had clear paternal instincts.
  • Do they not have paternal instincts that are chemically depressed by crack use?
  • Later in life Jo recounted that her father had practically no paternal instincts, and the family's existence was always troubled.
3. motherly instinct = macierzyński instynkt motherly instinct
4. parental instinct = rodzicielski instynkt parental instinct
(4) good, right, moral, decent, criminal
Kolokacji: 5
(5) political, journalistic, professional
Kolokacji: 3
(6) human, humanitarian
Kolokacji: 2
(7) strong, powerful
Kolokacji: 2
(8) pure, sheer, fine
Kolokacji: 3
(9) protective, defensive, incredible, self-protective
Kolokacji: 4
(10) unerring, infallible, unfailing
Kolokacji: 3
(11) primitive, new
Kolokacji: 2
(12) competitive, aggressive, combative
Kolokacji: 3
(13) deep, deepest, dark, sound
Kolokacji: 4
(14) better, best
Kolokacji: 2
(15) bad, commercial, excellent, brilliant
Kolokacji: 4
(16) old, ancient, immediate, age-old
Kolokacji: 4
(17) primal, great, fundamental
Kolokacji: 3
(18) homing, predatory, acquisitive, tactical, racial
Kolokacji: 5
(19) creative, subtle, destructive
Kolokacji: 3
(20) musical, feminine, high
Kolokacji: 3
(21) uncanny, strange
Kolokacji: 2
(22) sure, Fatal, certain
Kolokacji: 3
(23) sexual, territorial, well-developed, biological
Kolokacji: 4
(24) initial, primeval
Kolokacji: 2
(25) dramatic, comic, theatrical
Kolokacji: 3
(26) entrepreneurial, conservative, democratic, cautious
Kolokacji: 4
(27) social, tribal, migratory, hereditary
Kolokacji: 4
(28) savage, wild, fierce, violent, feral, ...
Kolokacji: 7
(29) artistic, mere
Kolokacji: 2
(30) liberal, charitable
Kolokacji: 2
preposición + instinct
Kolokacji: 12
by instinct • on instinct • of instinct • to one's instincts • with instincts • ...

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