on the spur of the moment

1. 1.

   on impulse; without premeditation

   “he decided to go to Chicago on the spur of the moment”

   “he made up his mind suddenly”

   Synonymssuddenly

Questions about on the spur of the moment

What does on the spur of the moment mean?

on the spur of the moment means "on impulse; without premeditation".

What is another word for on the spur of the moment?

Close synonyms include suddenly. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is on the spur of the moment a common word?

on the spur of the moment is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.