Spontaneous

/spɒnˈteɪ.ni.əs/ · adjective

Meaning

Self-generated; happening without any apparent external cause..

Definitions by Sense

1. Self-generated; happening without any apparent external cause.
2. Done by one's own free choice, or without planning.
3. Proceeding from natural feeling or native tendency without external or conscious constraint.
4. Arising from a momentary impulse.
5. Controlled and directed internally; self-active; spontaneous movement characteristic of living things.
6. Produced without being planted or without human cultivation or labor.
7. Sudden, without warning.
8. Said or done without prior planning or prior writing.

Example Sentences

He made a spontaneous offer of help.

To make a spontaneous decision

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.

He persisted in his design; and, because he would not make his wants known, actually subsisted for several days on hips, haws and sloes, and other spontaneous fruits which he gathered in the woods and fields.

He made a spontaneous remarks in the court.

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Word Forms

• more spontaneous
• most spontaneous

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