Spontaneous

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Happening or arising without apparent external cause; self-generated.
  • adj. Arising from a natural inclination or impulse and not from external incitement or constraint.
  • adj. Unconstrained and unstudied in manner or behavior.
  • adj. Growing without cultivation or human labor.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Self generated; happening without any apparent external cause.
  • adj. Done by one's own free choice, or without planning.
  • adj. proceeding from natural feeling or native tendency without external constraint
  • adj. arising from a momentary impulse
  • adj. controlled and directed internally : self-active : spontaneous movement characteristic of living things
  • adj. produced without being planted or without human labor : indigenous
  • adj. not apparently contrived or manipulated : natural
  • adj. Random.
  • adj. Sudden, without warning.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Proceeding from natural feeling, temperament, or disposition, or from a native internal proneness, readiness, or tendency, without constraint.
  • adj. Proceeding from, or acting by, internal impulse, energy, or natural law, without external force
  • adj. Produced without being planted, or without human labor.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Proceeding from a conscious or unconscious internal impulse; occurring or done without the intervention of external causes; in a restricted sense, springing from one's own desire or volition, apart from any external suggestion or incitement.
  • Growing naturally, without previous human care.
  • Growing as native; indigenous.
  • In biology, instinctive or automatic, as some actions of animals which depend upon no external stimulus and are performed without apparent motive or purpose; uninfluenced by external conditions, as a change in structural character. Compare spontaneity, 2.
  • Synonyms Willing, etc. (see voluntary), instinctive, unbidden.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. said or done without having been planned or written in advance
  • adj. happening or arising without apparent external cause
  • Equivalent
    unscripted    unprompted    impulsive    natural    intuitive   
    Antonym
    labored   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    uncompelled    willing    voluntary    natural    free   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    natural    sincere    sudden    instinctive    poetic