unprompted

1. 1.

   proceeding from natural feeling or impulse without external stimulus

   “an impulsive gesture of affection”

   Synonymsimpulsive

   Similarspontaneous

Questions about unprompted

What does unprompted mean?

unprompted means "proceeding from natural feeling or impulse without external stimulus".

How many syllables are in unprompted?

unprompted has 3 syllables: un-promp-ted. The stress falls on "un".

What is another word for unprompted?

Close synonyms include impulsive. 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 unprompted a common word?

unprompted 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.