unprovoked

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   occurring without provocation, justification, or an apparent motivating act

   The court condemned the attack as deliberate and unprovoked.

Formed from un- + provoked. Provoke comes from Latin provocare, 'to call forth or challenge,' from pro-, 'forth,' + vocare, 'to call.'

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