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| Main Entry: |
unprepared
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| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not ready |
| Synonyms: | ad-lib, caught off guard, ill-considered, impromptu, improvised, napping, not prepared, off the cuff, off the top of one's head, offhand, played by ear, spontaneous, surprised, taken off guard, unaware, unexpected, unplanned, unready, unrehearsed, unschooled, unskilled, untrained, vulnerable, winged* |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | voluntary |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | willing |
| Synonyms: | autonomous, chosen, deliberate, designful, discretional, elected, free, free-willed, freely, gratuitous, honorary, independent, intended, intentional, opted, optional, spontaneous, unasked, unbidden, uncompelled, unconstrained, unforced, unpaid, unprescribed, volitional, volunteer, willed, willful, wished, witting |
| Antonyms: | forced, involuntary, obligatory, unwilling |
| Main Entry: | unrestrained |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | excessive |
| Synonyms: | abandoned, audacious, bizarre, blunt, candid, dissolute, exaggerated, extravagant, flamboyant, frank, free, immoderate, immoral, impertinent, impotent, incontinent, indiscriminate, inordinate, intemperate, lawless, licentious, limitless, loose, open, plenary, profligate, rampant, riotous, saturnalian, spontaneous, unbounded, unbridled, unchecked, uncontrolled, uncurbed, ungoverned, unhampered, uninhibited, unlimited, unrestricted, wanton, wild |
| Antonyms: | restrained, restricted |
| Main Entry: | knee-jerk |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | automatic |
| Synonyms: | expected, predictable, reflex, spontaneous |
| Main Entry: | extemporaneous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | improvised |
| Synonyms: | ad hoc, ad-lib, automatic, autoschediastic, by ear, casual, expedient, extemporary, extempore, fake, free, immediate, impromptu, improv, improvisatory, improviso, informal, jamming, made-up, makeshift, offhand, on impulse, on-the-spot, snap, spontaneous, spur-of-the-moment, toss off, toss out, unplanned, unpremeditated, unprepared, unrehearsed, unstudied, winging it |
| Notes: | extemporaneous means 'prepared in advance and carried out with few or no notes' while impromptu means 'totally unprepared, performed on the spur of the moment' - but this distinction has been all but lost |
| Antonyms: | deliberate, planned, premeditated, prepared, rehearsed |
| Main Entry: | reflex |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | mechanical |
| Synonyms: | automatic, habitual, involuntary, knee-jerk, responsive, spontaneous, unthinking |
| Main Entry: | untaught |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | uneducated |
| Synonyms: | ignorant, illiterate, instinctive, natural, spontaneous, uninstructed, unlearned, unschooled, untrained, untutored |
| Antonyms: | learned, taught |
| Main Entry: | unstudied |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | impromptu |
| Synonyms: | artless, extemporaneous, extemporary, extempore, instinctive, naive, natural, offhand, spontaneous |
| Antonyms: | prepared, studied |
| Main Entry: | unplanned |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not planned |
| Synonyms: | accidental, adventitious, aleatory, fortuitous, haphazard, impromptu, random, spontaneous, undesigned, unexpected, unintended, unintentional |
| Antonyms: | planned |
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