- naturally, without premeditation, prompting, or planning:The author recounts how a fully-fledged exchange market economy emerged spontaneously in his POW camp.These answers were given spontaneously to an open-ended question that did not offer response options.
- in an impulsive way: It was so cold the other night that I spontaneously booked a trip to Turks and Caicos.
- by a natural process or from an internal force or cause:A calf should normally stand spontaneously within 60–90 minutes of its birth.The symptoms resolved spontaneously within 6 months of onset.
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