how to pronounce spontaneous
/spənˈtɛɪniːəs/
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spontaneous is pronounced in four syllables
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An example use of spontaneous in a speech by a native speaker of american english:
“… are painless you can be spontaneous and …”
meanings of spontaneous
adjective:
- Done by one's own free choice, or without planning.
- Sudden, without warning.
- Controlled and directed internally; self-active; spontaneous movement characteristic of living things.
- Self-generated; happening without any apparent external cause.
- Proceeding from natural feeling or native tendency without external or conscious constraint.
- Arising from a momentary impulse.
- Random.
- Produced without being planted or without human cultivation or labor.
spontaneous frequency in english - C1 level of CEFR
the word spontaneous occurs in english on average 7.2 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C1 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.
topics spontaneous can be related to
it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that spontaneous can be often used in the following areas:
1) people, society, and culture;
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