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spontaneous

spon·ta·ne·ous

spontaneous

 
 
pronunciation:
span teI ni s
features:
Word Combinations (adjective)
part of speech: adjective
definition 1: happening freely or done by impulse; not forced.
She reacted to news of the disaster with spontaneous generosity.His smile in the photograph doesn't appear spontaneous.The anti-government demonstration had not been planned, but, rather, was an unpredicted, spontaneous event.
synonyms:
impulsive, natural, unpremeditated, voluntary
antonyms:
calculated, constrained, planned, premeditated, prepared
similar words:
ad-lib, candid, extemporaneous, free, impetuous, impromptu, seat-of-the-pants, snap, unforced, unprompted
definition 2: happening without outward forces or causes.
spontaneous regeneration of tissue
similar words:
automatic, ex nihilo, natural, self-acting
definition 3: free, natural, and unconstrained in behavior.
synonyms:
free, natural, unconstrained
antonyms:
constrained, inhibited
similar words:
abandoned, extemporaneous, ingenuous, open, unaffected, unguarded, unstudied, willing
Word Combinations  About this feature
adverb + (adj.)spontaneous entirely, largely, seemingly, totally
(adj.)spontaneous + noun abortion, act, activity, affection, alternation, applause, beta, birth, breathing, burst, celebration, cheer, coefficient, colonization, combustion, composition, conformity, consciousness, conversation, creation, creativity, dance, decay, delivery, demonstration, discharge, emergence, emission, emotion, encounter, enthusiasm, eruption, evolution, exploration, explosion, expression, fission, flexibility, format, gathering, generation, gesture, healing, improvement, improvisation, impulse, inspiration, interaction, invention, joy, laughter, leakage, lesion, magnetization, migration, miscarriage, moment, movement, mutation, nature, nystagmus, occurrence, order, origin, outburst, outpouring, ovation, parade, passion, peritonitis, play, polarization, prayer, pregnancy, protest, quotient, rate, reaction, recovery, regression, remission, resolution, response, revolt, rupture, singing, smile, speech, spelling, symmetry, uprising, urge, writing [See all][See only the most frequent]
derivations: spontaneously (adv.), spontaneousness (n.)