spontaneous

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UK /spɒnˈteɪ.ni.əs/ US /spɑnˈteɪ.ni.əs/

adj 5

Collocations

(adj.)

VERBS

appear, be, seem

ADV

genuinely | quite, totally | apparently, seemingly

wonderfully

Her wonderfully spontaneous decision to take a different route led us to discover a beautiful hidden café.

Definitions

adj

Self-generated; happening without any apparent external cause.

He made a spontaneous offer of help.

To make a spontaneous decision

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.

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Synonyms

adjective — said or done without having been planned or written in advan

adjective — happening or arising without apparent external cause

self-generated

Antonyms

induced

Idioms & Phrases

Example Bank

He made a spontaneous offer of help.

Wiktionary

To make a spontaneous decision

Wiktionary

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

Wiktionary

A spontaneous fire started in the hay.

Tatoeba · #21077

Teaching spontaneous thinking is difficult in schools.

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The astronauts were greeted with spontaneous applause.

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