English-German translations for spontaneous

• spontan
  Die bürokratische Hilfe ist niemals so gut wie eine spontane und tatkräftige Hilfe. Bureaucratic assistance is never as good as spontaneous, active assistance.
  Mit Sicherheit ist dieses Mitgefühl spontan und ehrlich gemeint, aber es ist kurzlebig. This compassion is certainly spontaneous and sincere, but it is short-lived.
  Es gibt eine Reihenfolge, und ich fürchte, Sie können nicht einfach eine spontane Frage stellen. There is an order and I am afraid you cannot come with a spontaneous question.

Definition of spontaneous

• Self-generated; happening without any apparent external cause
• Done by one's own free choice, or without planning
• Arising from a momentary impulse
• Produced without being planted or without human labor; indigenous
• Random

Examples

• He made a spontaneous offer of help.
• a spontaneous growth of wood

Related words

• spontaneously
• spontaneousness
• spontaneous abortion
• spontaneous combustion
• spontaneous generation
• spontaneous fission
• spontaneous ovulation
• spontaneous rupturing
• spontaneous combustibility