Clips need JavaScript: the YouTube player has to be driven from the page. The sentences
with instinctive below are plain text.
How to pronounce instinctive in American English
“instinctive” pronunciation by American speakers
Listen to instinctive the way American speakers say it — in real sentences from public video clips that play here, on YouTongue.
Hear “instinctive” in: all accents · British English (52 clips)
“instinctive” in real sentences — American speakers
30 clips in the index. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
-
Hasn't been trained in any way, this is an instinctive behavior.
NIST
-
And -- and I -- you all had the immediate, same, instinctive reaction when she said,
The Obama White House
-
this Administration is that they are instinctive, they are reflexive, and they are right.
State Department
Other forms of “instinctive”
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of instinctive. Conversation gives you the stress, the vowel reduction and the speed that people actually use — and they differ between accents. YouTongue plays the surrounding sentence, so you hear the word in the rhythm it belongs to.