unprompted

Examples

• All

• At the party, she unprompted danced without needing anyone to encourage her.

• He unprompted complimented my presentation skills, surprising everyone in the room.

• "As if!" her mother would say, unprompted, at any time at all.

  Fiction book (2000)

• The present research supports Lapatto's hypothesis by documenting unprompted student reflections throughout a summer research program.

  Academic text (2008)

• He brought up his administration's botched withdrawal from Afghanistan unprompted and repeatedly mixed up billion with million.

• During the meeting, she unprompted shared her ideas for improving the project.

Synonyms

S

spontaneous

vsunprompted

187 4.2

Happening naturally without planning or outside cause

emphasizes absence of a request or encouragement, not only natural emergence

I

impromptu

vsunprompted

37 6.3

Done or said without preparation

is about acting without being requested rather than improvising for effect

U

unplanned

vsunprompted

25 3.5

Happening by chance without getting ready first

focuses on absence of encouragement or request rather than mere chance occurrence

U

unbidden

vsunprompted

5 7.5

Happening on its own without being asked or wanted

is about acting without encouragement or request rather than just lack of plan

U

unpremeditated

vsunprompted

2 7.5

Happening without being planned or thought about first

stresses lack of outside prompting rather than simply being unplanned

I

improvisatory

vsunprompted

1 7.7

Happens without planning, often on the spot

is about lack of external prompting rather than pure creative spontaneity

A

ad lib

vsunprompted

1 7.7

Says or does something without planning

is about acting without encouragement rather than about no preparation

U

unstudied

vsunprompted

1 6.4

Not planned or practiced and seeming natural

is about acting without someone asking, not only about unrehearsed manner

U

unconstructed

vsunprompted

6.0

Speech or action that feels natural and not planned

is about doing something without someone encouraging or requesting it

How Prompted

requested

1.3

unprompted

2 6.2

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology