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Princeton's WordNet

  1. motiveless, unprovoked, wantonadjective

    occurring without motivation or provocation

    "motiveless malignity"; "unprovoked and dastardly attack"- F.D.Roosevelt

Wiktionary

  1. unprovokedadjective

    Happening without provocation or motivation

    He attacked me, suddenly, unprovoked.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Unprovokedadjective

    Not provoked.

    The teeming earth, yet guiltless of the plough,
    And unprovok’d, did fruitful stores allow. Dryden.

    Let them forbear all open and secret methods of encouraging a rebellion so destructive, and so unprovoked. Addison.

ChatGPT

  1. unprovoked

    Unprovoked typically refers to an action, often aggressive or hostile in nature, that is initiated without any apparent reason, justification, or previous stimulus. This usually implies that the action was unexpected, undue, or not instigated by any form of defensive necessity.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Unprovoked

    un-prō-vōkt′, adj. not having received provocation, uncalled for.—adv. Unprovō′kedly.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of unprovoked in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of unprovoked in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of unprovoked in a Sentence

  1. Detectives James Essig:

    This is an unprovoked, brutal and appalling crime on a woman who was just trying to get home after a day's work.

  2. Metropolitan Police Chief Peter Newsham:

    We were able to talk to multiple witnesses and we don't have anything to suggest that there was any type of confrontation between the two, it looks like it was an unprovoked attack.

  3. Menasha Police Chief Tim Styka:

    The shooter shot all four victims unprovoked and at close range.

  4. Merrick Garland:

    There is no hiding place for war criminals. Justice Department will pursue every avenue of accountability for those who commit war crimes and other atrocities in Ukraine, working alongside our domestic and international partners, Justice Department will be relentless in our efforts to hold accountable every person complicit in the commission of war crimes, torture, and other grave violations during the unprovoked conflict in Ukraine.

  5. Harris County Sheriff Ron Hickman:

    He was literally gunned down in what appears to be an unprovoked, execution-style killing, i have been in law enforcement for 45 years, I have never seen anything this cold-blooded.

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