spontaneous
adjective
coming or resulting from a natural impulse or tendency; without effort or premeditation; natural and unconstrained; unplanned.
unspontaneous
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a word derived from
spontaneous.
Example Sentences
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The story describes the contradiction of the philosopher’s “paean to spontaneity and her own nature, the least spontaneous, most doggedly, nervously, even fanatically unspontaneous I know.”
From The New Yorker ● Jul. 18, 2016
Eight numbers were choreographed by Mr. Galletto; all too often it seemed that tango was an awkward pretext for a more artfully unspontaneous and strenuous kind of movement.
From New York Times ● Aug. 12, 2013
Then there are the unspontaneous and nervous speeches.
From New York Times ● May 18, 2010
Historic moments are often tame and unspontaneous affairs, played out in marble halls amid the flutter of flags and the trumpeting of national anthems.
From Time Magazine Archive
Then Pallas struck The suitors with delirium; wide they stretch’d Their jaws with unspontaneous laughter loud; Their meat dripp’d blood; tears fill’d their eyes, and dire Presages of approaching woe, their hearts.
From The Odyssey of Homer by William Cowper
