spontaneous
Adjective
- happening or arising without apparent external cause
- "spontaneous laughter"
- "spontaneous combustion"
- "a spontaneous abortion"
Adjective Satellite
- said or done without having been planned or written in advance
Adj
- Self-generated; happening without any apparent external cause.
- 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.
Examples
- He made a spontaneous offer of help.
- He made a spontaneous remarks in the court.
- To make a spontaneous decision
Origin / Etymology
Learned borrowing from Late Latin spontāneus.
Synonyms
ad-lib, self-generated, unwritten, abrupt, autonomous, precipitant, precipitate, precipitous, spontaneous, subitaneous, sudden, suddent
Antonyms
Scrabble Score: 13
spontaneous: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordspontaneous: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
spontaneous: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary