Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Spontaneous; voluntary.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective obsolete Spontaneous; voluntary.

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  • adjective archaic spontaneous; voluntary

Etymologies

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Latin ultroneus, from ultro to the further side, on his part, of one's own accord. See ultra-.

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  • Spontaneous; voluntary.

    June 8, 2008

  • This word was chosen as Wordnik word of the day.

    November 11, 2009

  • A pleasing (to me) mirrored inversion of the 5+5 string of vowels and consonants occurs in ultroneous: vcccv/cvvvc

    July 6, 2010