What does spur-of-the-moment mean?
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spur-of-the-moment
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Princeton's WordNet
spur-of-the-momentadjective
in response to an unforeseen need
"a spur-of-the-moment party"
Wiktionary
spur-of-the-momentadjective
Spontaneous; impromptu.
It was a spur-of-the-moment decision to buy the car.
Etymology: See spur of the moment
ChatGPT
spur-of-the-moment
Spur-of-the-moment refers to an action or decision made impulsively, without pre-planning or considering the consequences. It involves sudden and spontaneous behavior prompted by the situation or circumstance at that particular time.
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of spur-of-the-moment in Chaldean Numerology is: 5
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of spur-of-the-moment in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1
Examples of spur-of-the-moment in a Sentence
It was just a spur of the moment.
It’s a very justified question to ever ask and to always ask, because he was one of the greatest at what he did, and all I can do is do my best, be my own person, make the decisions in the way that I've always made decisions, which is putting in as much thought into a decision as possible, taking the time if I have the time to do just that. There's no doubt I'm going to live a little bit less spur of the moment than he was in a lot of ways.
I had made that video one night when I had been having a bunch of beers, smoking a little weed, taken a few bong rips, and I kind of did this spur of the moment video, just spewing out some rhetoric, and I didn't think anything was wrong at the time, i thought it was sort of amusing in a way. And Inauguration Day later I checked back into Inauguration Day with a bit of a sober mind and saw that Inauguration Day wasn't really sparking the dialogue that I had hoped to get going.
Unfortunately there was a fan who said something on the tee, and spur of the moment I said something, a word in the middle there, that I wish I wouldn't have said, i apologize to the fans.
It was very, very minimally planned in advance and was largely spur of the moment. Violet stayed home because Jennifer Lopez’s extremely loyal to Jennifer Lopez mom.
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