Definition of "unprovoked"

unprovoked

/ˌʌnpɹəˈvoʊkt/

adjective
comparative more unprovoked, superlative most unprovoked
1. Happening without provocation or motivation.
  Quotations
  A 22-year-old man has been jailed for life with a minimum term of 25 years for fatally stabbing 22-year-old Tashan Daniel in an unprovoked attack at Hillingdon Underground station on September 24 2019.
  2020 September 9, “Network News: Man jailed for Hillingdon murder”, in Rail, page 25
adverb
comparative more unprovoked, superlative most unprovoked
1. Without provocation or motivation.
  Quotations
  'He said, "I won't bugger you"? Really?' 'Yes, really.' 'God. That is a bit suspicious; coming out unprovoked.'
  2011, Mil Millington ·, Love and Other Near Death Experiences
  The supernatural are so destructive that they have to create conditions to enable the continuous infliction of mental and physical injuries on others unprovoked.
  2012, Lord Loveday Ememe, The Supernatural
  So when one of our own flouts our laws to attack my house unprovoked—”
  2015, Mark E. Cooper, Way of the Wolf: Shifter Legacies 1
verb
1. simple past and past participle of unprovoke