Usually means: Occurring without external cause, unplanned.
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We found 33 dictionaries that define the word spontaneous:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. spontaneous: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. spontaneous: Merriam-Webster
  3. spontaneous: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. spontaneous: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. spontaneous: Collins English Dictionary
  6. spontaneous: Vocabulary.com
  7. Spontaneous, spontaneous: Wordnik
  8. spontaneous: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. spontaneous: Wiktionary
  10. spontaneous: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. spontaneous: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. spontaneous: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. spontaneous: Dictionary.com
  14. spontaneous: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. spontaneous: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Spontaneous (film), Spontaneous: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Spontaneous: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. spontaneous: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. spontaneous: Rhymezone
  20. spontaneous: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. spontaneous: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. spontaneous: FreeDictionary.org
  23. spontaneous: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. spontaneous: TheFreeDictionary.com

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

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. spontaneous: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. spontaneous: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. spontaneous: Medical dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. General Chemistry Online (No longer online)

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

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Self-generated; happening without any apparent external cause.
adjective:  Done by one's own free choice, or without planning.
adjective:  Proceeding from natural feeling or native tendency without external or conscious constraint.
adjective:  Arising from a momentary impulse.
adjective:  Controlled and directed internally; self-active; spontaneous movement characteristic of living things.
adjective:  Produced without being planted or without human cultivation or labor.
adjective:  Sudden, without warning.

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