Unprompted

Definition: Unprompted

Unprompted

Adjective

1. Proceeding from natural feeling or impulse without external stimulus; "an impulsive gesture of affection".

Date "unprompted" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1762. (references)

Synonym: Unprompted

Synonym: impulsive (adj). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Impulse	Adjective: extemporaneous, impulsive, indeliberate; snap; improvised, improvisate, improvisatory; unpremeditated, unmeditated; improvise; unprompted, unguided; natural, unguarded; spontaneous; (voluntary); instinctive.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

"Unprompted" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Unprompted" is used about 15 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 Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	100%	15	90,616

Expression using "unprompted": unprompted by me. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Language		Translations for "unprompted"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		i pasugjeruar, i bërë sipas deshirës. (various references)

Arabic		‏تلقائي (automatic, automatical, automatism, impulsive, involuntary, spontaneous), ‏عفوي (casual, glib, spontaneous, unrestrained). (various references)

Bulgarian		спонтанен (candid, instinctive, spontaneous, unconditioned, unconstrained, unforced, unpremeditated, unrehearsed, unrequested, unschooled, unscripted, unsolicited, unstudied, untaught), невнушен, неподсказан. (various references)

Czech		samovolný (spontaneous). (various references)

German		spontan (impulsive, impulsively, offhanded, snap, spontaneous, spontaneously, unrehearsed). (various references)

Greek		απαρόρμητοσ, αυθόρμητοσ (impulsive, spontaneous). (various references)

Hungarian		rögtönzött (ad lib, ad-lib, extemporal, extemporaneous, extemporary, extempore, hop, impromptu, improvisational, improvised, jury, makeshift, off hand, off-hand, scratch, snap, unpremeditated, unrehearsed). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		問わず語り (unprompted remark or statement). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		とわずがたり (unprompted remark or statement). (various references)

Pig Latin		omptedunpray

Portuguese		não incitado, espontâneo (cavalier, free, matter-of-course, natural, offhand, offhanded, self-sown, spontaneous, unasked, unbidden, unconstrained, unlaboured, unpremeditated, unsought, unstrained, unstudied, untaught, willing). (various references)

Russian		самопроизвольный (spontaneous), не подсказанный. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		nepotpomognut. (various references)

Turkish		istemli (optional, voluntary), isteğe bağlı (arbitrary, discretionary, facultative, incidental, optional, permissive), ihtiyari (discretionary, facultative, optional). (various references)

Vietnamese		tự mình, không ai xui giục; không ai gợi ý; tự ý. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Misspellings
	"Unprompted" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: unpromoted, unpropped, unrumpled. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "d-e-m-n-o-p-p-r-t-u"
	-2 letters: prompted.
	-3 letters: demount, mordent, mounted, mounter, mourned, portend, pounder, propend, propmen, protend, prudent, remount, tromped, trouped, trumped, unroped, uptempo, uptrend.
	-4 letters: deport, detour, dumper, enduro, mentor, modern, mopped, mopper, moppet, normed, ponder, ported, potmen, poured, pouted, pouter, prompt, pruned, pumped, pumper, punted, punter, redout, redtop, repump, rodent, rodmen, romped, rotund, rouped, roupet, routed.
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