Usually means: Not caused by prior action.
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We found 21 dictionaries that define the word unprovoked:

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  1. unprovoked: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. unprovoked: Merriam-Webster
  3. unprovoked: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. unprovoked: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. unprovoked: Collins English Dictionary
  6. unprovoked: Vocabulary.com
  7. Unprovoked, unprovoked: Wordnik
  8. unprovoked: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. unprovoked: Wiktionary
  10. unprovoked: Dictionary.com
  11. unprovoked: Online Etymology Dictionary
  12. unprovoked: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  13. unprovoked: Rhymezone
  14. unprovoked: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  15. unprovoked: FreeDictionary.org
  16. unprovoked: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. unprovoked: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. unprovoked: Legal dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Unprovoked: Urban Dictionary

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▸ adjective:  Happening without provocation.
▸ adverb:  Without provocation or motivation.

Similar:
motiveless, unmotivated, wanton, nonprovoked, unprompted, uninstigated, spontaneous, expontaneous, uncommanded, unstaged, more...

Opposite:
provoked, intentional, deliberate, calculated

Types:
bear, wolf, lion, tiger, snake, shark, spider, bee, mosquito, ant, more...

Phrases:
deliberate and unprovoked, unprovoked and uncalled for, wrong unprovoked, be wronged unprovoked, unprovoked attack, more...


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Similar:
motiveless, unmotivated, wanton, nonprovoked, unprompted, uninstigated, spontaneous, expontaneous, uncommanded, unstaged, more...

Opposite:
provoked, intentional, deliberate, calculated

Types:
bear, wolf, lion, tiger, snake, shark, spider, bee, mosquito, ant, more...

Phrases:
deliberate and unprovoked, unprovoked and uncalled for, wrong unprovoked, be wronged unprovoked, unprovoked attack, more...



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