Spontaneous
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /spɒnˈteɪ.ni.əs/ · Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Spontaneous is an adjective meaning Self-generated; happening without any apparent external cause.
Meaning
Self-generated; happening without any apparent external cause.
More Meanings
- Done by one's own free choice, or without planning.
- Proceeding from natural feeling or native tendency without external or conscious constraint.
- Arising from a momentary impulse.
- Controlled and directed internally; self-active; spontaneous movement characteristic of living things.
- Produced without being planted or without human cultivation or labor.
- Sudden, without warning.
- Said or done without prior planning or prior writing.
Example Sentences
To make a spontaneous decision
He made a spontaneous offer of help.
He made a spontaneous remarks in the court.
YSL, as he is often called, is equally capable of casual, aristocratic cruelty and earthy, spontaneous tenderness, and when you study his face it can be hard to distinguish boredom from rapture.
Synonyms for spontaneous
Depending on context, synonyms include autonomous, abrupt, precipitous, subitaneous, precipitant, precipitate.
Antonyms for spontaneous
Common opposites include induced.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include unprompted, unscripted, instinctive, natural, impulsive, wild.
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