spontaneous
English
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Late LatinCategory:English terms borrowed from Late Latin#SPONTANEOUSCategory:English learned borrowings from Late Latin#SPONTANEOUSCategory:English terms derived from Late Latin#SPONTANEOUS spontāneus.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /spɒnˈteɪ.ni.əs/Category:English 4-syllable words#SPONTANEOUSCategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#SPONTANEOUS
- (US) IPA(key): /spɑnˈteɪ.ni.əs/Category:English 4-syllable words#SPONTANEOUSCategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#SPONTANEOUS
- Rhymes: -eɪniəsCategory:Rhymes:English/eɪniəs#SPONTANEOUSCategory:Rhymes:English/eɪniəs/4 syllables#SPONTANEOUS
Category:English terms with audio pronunciation#SPONTANEOUSAudio (US): (file)
Adjective
spontaneous (comparative more spontaneous, superlative most spontaneous)Category:English lemmas#SPONTANEOUSCategory:English adjectives#SPONTANEOUSCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#SPONTANEOUSCategory:Pages with entries#SPONTANEOUSCategory:Pages with 1 entry#SPONTANEOUS
- Self-generated; happening without any apparent external cause.
- Synonym: autonomous
- He made a spontaneous offer of help.Category:English terms with usage examples#SPONTANEOUS
- To make a spontaneous decisionCategory:English terms with usage examples#SPONTANEOUS
- Done by one's own free choice, or without planning.
- Synonym: autonomous
- 2015 May 7, A. O. Scott, “Review: ‘Saint Laurent,’ Beautiful People, High Fashion and Career at Its Pinnacle”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 18 September 2019:
- 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.Category:English terms with quotations#SPONTANEOUS
- Proceeding from natural feeling or native tendency without external or conscious constraint.
- Synonym: autonomous
- 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.
- 1751, [Tobias] Smollett, chapter 106, in The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume IV, London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC:
- 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.Category:English terms with quotations#SPONTANEOUS
- Sudden, without warning.
- Said or done without prior planning or prior writing.
- Synonym: unwritten
- He made a spontaneous remarks in the court.Category:English terms with usage examples#SPONTANEOUS
- Synonyms: abrupt, precipitous, subitaneous; see also Thesaurus:sudden
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Translations
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 constraint
arising from a momentary impulse
controlled and directed internally
produced without being planted or without human labor
not apparently contrived or manipulated
random — see random
sudden, without warning
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