Unprovoked

Definition: Unprovoked

Unprovoked

Adjective

1. Occurring without motivation or provocation; "motiveless malignity"; "unprovoked and dastardly attack"- F.D.Roosevelt.

Date "unprovoked" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1790. (references)

Synonyms: Unprovoked

Synonyms: motiveless (adj), wanton (adj). (additional references)

Crosswords: Unprovoked

English words defined with "unprovoked": aggression ♦ dastard, dastardly ♦ hostility. (references)

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	No matter how long it may take us to over come this pre-meditated invasion, the American people in their righteous might will win through to absolute victory! Because of the unprovoked, dastardly attack by Japan, I ask that the congress declare a state of War! (Pearl Harbor; writing credit: Randall Wallace)
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Domain	Title
Books	Unprovoked Murder (reference) (more book examples)
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Author	Date	Quotation
Treaty of Versailles	1919	If at that date the guarantees against unprovoked aggression by Germany are not considered sufficient by the Allied and Associated Governments, the evacuation of the occupying troops may be delayed to the extent regarded as necessary for the purpose of obtaining the required guarantees. (reference)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		More than 2 million people in the United States�about 1 in 100�have experienced an unprovoked seizure or been diagnosed with epilepsy. (references)
		Often these seizures occur in reaction to anesthesia or a strong drug, but they also may be unprovoked, meaning that they occur without any obvious triggering factor. (references)
Human Rights	India	A case was filed against the security forces for the unprovoked killing of villagers. (references)
	Chad	The attack on Abdelkader, which occurred while the military allegedly was chasing a suspected thief through the school grounds, was unprovoked. (references)
	Brazil	Television cameras showed riot police firing at unarmed prisoners from atop a wall, leading human rights groups to accuse police of the unprovoked killing of at least two prisoners. (references)
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Speaker	Phrase(s)
Robert Novak	But there are thoughtful Republicans with second thoughts about invading. House Majority Leader Dick Armey has warned against an unprovoked attack. Caution from Brent Scowcroft, Jack Kemp, Chuck Hagel, Dick Lugar.
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Speaker	Term	Phrase(s)
George Washington	1789-1797	The Chickamaugas, aided by some banditti of another tribe in their vicinity, have recently perpetrated wanton and unprovoked hostilities upon the citizens of the United States in that quarter.
James Monroe	1817-1825	Unprovoked injuries are often inflicted and even the peculiar felicity of our situation might with some be a cause for excitement and aggression.
Andrew Jackson	1829-1837	Severe as is the lesson to the Indians, it was rendered necessary by their unprovoked aggressions, and it is to be hoped that its impression will be permanent and salutary.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Unprovoked" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Unprovoked" is used about 69 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%	69	40,280

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Language		Translations for "unprovoked"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		i pashkaktuar (uninspired). (various references)

Bulgarian		непровокиран, непредизвикан (uncalled for). (various references)

Czech		nevyprovokovaný (uncalled for), nìèím nevyvolaný. (various references)

French		� plaisir (unfound, unfounded). (various references)

German		grundlos (abysmal, baseless, bottomless, causaleless, causeless, causelessly, for no reason, groundless, motiveless, unfounded, unfoundedly, ungrounded, unmotivated). (various references)

Greek		απρόκλητοσ (unchallenged). (various references)

Hungarian		indokolatlan (causeless, gratuitous, undue, unmotivated, wanton). (various references)

Pig Latin		ovokedunpray

Portuguese		sem motivo (causeless, uncaused), não provocado, calmo (calm, collected, composed, cool, cool-headed, dispassionate, douce, even, even-minded, halcyon, half-light, imperturbable, irresponsive, leisurely, mild, noiseless, passionless, peaceable, peaceful, peace-loving, philosophic, philosophical, phlegmatic, placable, placid, plodder, quiescent, quiet, reposeful, restful, sedate, self-collected, sequestered, serene, smooth, sober, sober-blooded, staid, still, stilly, tranquil, uneventful, unruffled, unstirred, untroubled). (various references)

Romanian		gratuit (all for naught, chargeless, costless, for love, free, gratis, gratuitous, gratuitously, unfounded, useless). (various references)

Russian		ничем не вызванный. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		nepotstreknut, neizazvan (unchallenged), neisprovociran. (various references)

Swedish		oprovocerad. (various references)

Turkish		tahrik edilmemiş, sebepsiz (causeless, gratis, gratuitous, groundless, innocent of reason, wanton, without any reason), kışkırtılmamış. (various references)

Vietnamese		không có sự khiêu khích, không bị khiêu khích. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "unprovoked" (pronounced u'npruvō"kt)
7	-p r u v ō" k t	provoked.
4	-v ō" k t	evoked, invoked, revoked.
3	-ō" k t	choked, cloaked, joked, poked, smoked, soaked, stoked, stroked, yoked.
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "d-e-k-n-o-o-p-r-u-v"
	-2 letters: provoked, unproved.
	-3 letters: pounder, provoke, unroped.
	-4 letters: devour, dunker, enduro, operon, overdo, ponder, poured, proved, proven, pruned, punker, rooked, rouped, undoer, unrove, updove, uropod, vendor, vodoun.
	-5 letters: devon, donor, doper, doven, drone, droop, drouk, drove, drunk, drupe, duper, kendo, korun, krone, kroon, nuder, nuked, odeon, odour, pedro, perdu, poked, poker, poove, pored, porno, pound.
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