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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Usually, this is the world’s most beautifully stuffy and elegantly unspontaneous company; here, as when it danced this ballet at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York, it bubbles over with impish sweetness.
From New York Times ● Feb. 1, 2017
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
Then there are the unspontaneous and nervous speeches.
From New York Times ● May 18, 2010
In the past 10 years," he says, "film has become very unspontaneous, whether it's using digital technology or being very storyboarded.
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
