- 1not planned but done because you suddenly want to do it a spontaneous offer of help The audience burst into spontaneous applause.
- 2often doing things without planning to, because you suddenly want to do them
- 3(technology) happening naturally, without being made to happen spontaneous remission of the disease
- 4done naturally, without being forced or practiced a tape recording of spontaneous speech a wonderfully spontaneous performance of the piece
adverb We spontaneously started to dance. The bleeding often stops spontaneously.See spontaneous in the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary
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