Makeshift vs Spontaneous - What's the difference?
makeshift | spontaneous |
A temporary, usually insubstantial, substitution for something else.
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Made to work or suffice; improvised; substituted.
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, year=2012
, date=May 26 2012
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, title=Norway 0-1 England
, work=BBC Sport
Self-generated; happening without any apparent external cause.
Done by one's own free choice, or without planning.
proceeding from natural feeling or native tendency without external or conscious constraint
arising from a momentary impulse
controlled and directed internally; self-active; spontaneous movement characteristic of living things
produced without being planted or without human labor]]; [[endemic, indigenous
Random.
Sudden, without warning.
As adjectives the difference between makeshift and spontaneous
is that makeshift is made to work or suffice; improvised; substituted while spontaneous is self-generated; happening without any apparent external cause.As a noun makeshift
is a temporary, usually insubstantial, substitution for something else.makeshift
English
Noun
(en noun)- I am not a model clergyman, only a decent makeshift .
Adjective
(en adjective)- They used the ledge and a few branches for a makeshift shelter.
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See also
* make shiftspontaneous
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- He made a spontaneous offer of help.
- a spontaneous growth of wood