(especially of an attack) not caused by anything the person being attacked has said or done:
an act of unprovoked aggression * Her angry outburst was totally unprovoked.
seealsoPROVOKE
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Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
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In this entry, unprovoked is tagged as adjective.
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