UNPROMPTED Synonyms: 39 Similar and Opposite Words

unprompted

adjective

Definition of unprompted

as in spontaneous

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Recent Examples of unprompted It’s been a while since Tony Vitello went on an unprompted tangent during a pregame session with San Francisco Giants reporters. — Andrew Baggarly, New York Times, 2 Aug. 2026 The most powerful loyalty signal in the experience economy, McKillips believes, is unprompted sharing — when people voluntarily tell their friends, post on social media, bring their team back the following month. — Nia Bowers, USA Today, 8 July 2026 Users seeing unprompted download windows should treat them as suspect. — Matt Burgess, Wired News, 23 May 2026 On Saturday, asked how Denver decides what returning players to invite to its rookie minicamp, head coach Sean Payton paused and offered a rare unprompted name-drop. — Luca Evans, Denver Post, 11 May 2026 See All Example Sentences for unprompted

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Occasional moments of real, spontaneous joy emerge, and others reveal the crushing emptiness of lives going nowhere, but the script doesn’t lean too hard in either direction.

— Christian Zilko, IndieWire, 9 Oct. 2026
The charismatic and spontaneous Tammy Faye earned a reputation for speaking her mind, sometimes in off-color ways, that brought her legions of fans.

— John Wigger, The Conversation, 8 Oct. 2026

Definition of spontaneous

Adjective

Mobile messaging relies on push notifications, driving rapid, instinctive responses before an employee’s critical thinking kicks in.

— Firas Azmeh, Forbes.com, 5 Oct. 2026
Those decisions have to become instinctive, and that familiarity is still coming.

— Michael Russo, New York Times, 3 Oct. 2026

Definition of instinctive

Adjective

Some robo-advisors offer more customization and features, such as tax-loss harvesting, which uses losses to offset other portfolio gains, or automatic rebalancing.

— Kate Dore, CFP®, EA,Kelli Grant, CFP®, CNBC, 8 Oct. 2026
And not all of the proofs were certified as correct by the automatic logic verification platform Lean—in fact, some have already been retracted after outside scientists found mistakes.

— Joseph Howlett, Scientific American, 8 Oct. 2026

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