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{
"term": "spontaneous",
"partOfSpeech": "adjective",
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "not planned but done because you suddenly want to do it",
"examples": [
{
"text": "a spontaneous offer of help"
},
{
"text": "The audience burst into spontaneous applause."
}
],
"collocations": {
"verbs": ["appear", "be", "seem"],
"adverb": ["genuinely", "quite", "totally"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "often doing things without planning to, because you suddenly want to do them",
"examples": [
{
"text": "Jo's a cheerful, spontaneous person, always ready for some fun."
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": 3,
"definition": "happening naturally, without being made to happen",
"labels": "(specialist)",
"examples": [
{
"text": "spontaneous remission of the disease"
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": 4,
"definition": "done naturally, without being forced, practised or organized in advance",
"examples": [
{
"text": "a recording of spontaneous speech"
},
{
"text": "a wonderfully spontaneous performance of the piece"
}
]
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/spɒnˈteɪniəs/",
"audio": "sp/spontaneous/spontaneous__gb_1.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/spɑːnˈteɪniəs/",
"audio": "sp/spontaneous/spontaneous__us_1.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "mid 17th cent.: from late Latin spontaneus (from (sua) sponte ‘of (one's) own accord’) + -ous."
}