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Involuntary synonyms

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unintentional
Not done on purpose
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  1. Not done on purpose
  2. Not intended or deliberate; inadvertent; unwitting
  3. Not deliberate or intentional; inadvertent:
uncontrolled
Not controlled
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  1. Not controlled
  2. Not under control, discipline, or governance.
instinctive
Being such by natural inclination rather than conscious effort or study:
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  1. Being such by natural inclination rather than conscious effort or study:
  2. Of, relating to, or prompted by instinct:
  3. Arising from impulse or natural inclination; done without thought or conscious effort; spontaneous:
spontaneous
Arising from a natural inclination or impulse and not from forethought or prompting:
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  1. Arising from a natural inclination or impulse and not from forethought or prompting:
  2. Happening or arising without apparent external cause; self-generated:
  3. Unconstrained and unstudied in manner or behavior:
automatic
Self-regulating:
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  1. Self-regulating:
  2. Capable of firing continuously until ammunition is exhausted or the trigger is released:
  3. Semiautomatic:
impulsive
Produced by or resulting from a sudden impulse
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  1. Produced by or resulting from a sudden impulse
  2. Motivated by or resulting from impulse:
  3. (Mech.) Acting briefly and as a result of impulse
instinctive
Being such by natural inclination rather than conscious effort or study:
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  1. Being such by natural inclination rather than conscious effort or study:
  2. Of, relating to, or prompted by instinct:
  3. Arising from impulse or natural inclination; done without thought or conscious effort; spontaneous:
reflex
Coming in reaction or reflection
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  1. Coming in reaction or reflection
  2. (--- Physiol.) Designating or of an involuntary action, as a sneeze, resulting from a stimulus that is carried by an afferent nerve to a nerve center and the response that is reflected along an efferent nerve to some muscle or gland
  3. Produced as an automatic response or reaction:
spontaneous
Unconstrained and unstudied in manner or behavior:
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  1. Unconstrained and unstudied in manner or behavior:
  2. Having no apparent external cause or influence; occurring or produced by its own energy, force, etc. or through internal causes; self-acting
  3. Happening or arising without apparent external cause; self-generated:
unpremeditated
Not premeditated; done without plan or forethought
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  1. Not premeditated; done without plan or forethought
  2. Performed, but not planned or thought out in advance; extemporaneous, but not unintentional.
Find another word for involuntary. In this page you can discover 14 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for involuntary, like: unintentional, uncontrolled, instinctive, spontaneous, automatic, habitual, spontaneous, automatic, impulsive, instinctive and reflex.

Sentence Examples

  • Lisa put shaking fingers to her mouth to silence an involuntary cry.

  • She took an involuntary step back into the hall.

  • According to him, then, attention, even involuntary attention, requires inner will; and all the functions imputed by Hume to association, as well as those imputed to understanding by Kant, require apperception, and therefore inner will.

  • "We've stayed too long!" said the count with involuntary vexation.

  • Many of these marbles contain memorial inscriptions relating to the English residents (voluntary and involuntary) of Algiers from the time of John Tipton, British consul in 1580.

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