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# spontaneously

«spontaneously» in Mova's school dictionary: **doing something suddenly, without planning it first…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adverb (spontaneously)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Spontaneously means doing something suddenly, without planning it first, because you feel like it, as in «the crowd spontaneously started clapping». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spontaneously/#m1)

2) In science, something happens spontaneously when it happens by itself, without anything from outside causing it at that moment. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spontaneously/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life and stories, doing something spontaneously, like a surprise picnic, shows fun and freedom. In science lessons, some chemical reactions or changes happen spontaneously. In ethics lessons, a spontaneous act of kindness is one nobody asked for. Phrases: «spontaneously burst into», «act spontaneously».

### examples

- The whole class spontaneously burst into song. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spontaneously/#x1)
- We spontaneously decided to go to the beach. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spontaneously/#x2)
- The fans stood up and cheered spontaneously. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spontaneously/#x3)
- Haystacks can sometimes catch fire spontaneously when they are damp and warm. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spontaneously/#x4)
- She spontaneously hugged the new girl. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spontaneously/#x5)
- The kittens spontaneously started chasing each other. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spontaneously/#x6)
- When once the conscience is awakened, it springs up in the heart spontaneously, and God awakens the conscience when we least expect it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spontaneously/#x7)

### note

Adverb from «spontaneous» + «-ly». Spelling: s-p-o-n-t-a-n-e-o-u-s-l-y. Noun: spontaneity. Myth trap: humans cannot «spontaneously combust» (burst into flames by themselves); that is a myth.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «spontaneously» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spontaneously/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.