unprovoked

Speech parts

1. unprovoked - Adjective

2. unprovoked - Verb

3. unprovoked - Adverb

4. unprovoked - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

occurring without motivation or provocation

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Synonyms

wanton motiveless needless light easy empty arbitrary excessive loose deliberate inappropriate malicious unjust wicked unreasonable
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Antonyms

necessary forced lucid limpid proper poverty
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Examples

motiveless malignity Source: Internet

unprovoked and dastardly attack Source: Internet

About 50% of patients with an unprovoked apparent “first seizure” have had other minor seizures, so their diagnosis is epilepsy. Source: Internet

According to police, the victims did not know the attacker and the assaults were unprovoked. Source: Internet

A defence spokesperson said Pakistan resorted to unprovoked ceasefire violation by firing with small arms and intense shelling with mortars in Balakote and Mendhar sectors of Poonch around 2 am. Source: Internet

Around seven Pakistan Army soldiers were killed and a dozen were injured after Indian Army retaliated to Pakistan’s unprovoked ceasefire violation along the Line of Control in Jammu and Kashmir. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

unprovocativeness unprovokable unprovoke unprovokedly unprovokedness unprovoking