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Spur-of-the-moment

Definition: Spur-of-the-moment

Spur-of-the-moment

Adjective

1. In response to an unforeseen need; "an impromptu speech"; "a spur-of-the-moment party".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Synonym: Spur-of-the-moment

Synonym: impromptu (adj). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Spur-of-the-moment

English words defined with "spur-of-the-moment": impromptu. (references)

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Usage Frequency: Spur-of-the-moment

"Spur-of-the-moment" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 75.00% of the time. "Spur-of-the-moment" is used about 4 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)75%3202,518
Noun (proper)25%1339,140
                    Total100.00%4N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Spur-of-the-moment

Language Translations for "spur-of-the-moment"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Chinese 

  

立即 (forthwith, herewith, instant, instantly). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

박차 의 순간. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ur-of-the-momentspay

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Spur-of-the-moment

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-e-f-h-m-m-n-o-o-p-r-s-t-t-u"

-4 letters: fourteenths, nephrostome, photometers.

-5 letters: foretopmen, fourteenth, housefront, metronomes, monometers, monotremes, nethermost, pheromones, photometer, portentous, postmortem, pothunters, potometers, stenotherm, stepmother, tonometers.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage Frequency
5. Translations: Modern
6. Anagrams
7. Bibliography


  

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