Extemporize

Synonyms for "extemporize" (53 found)

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Closest matches (11)

Verb(3 words)
ad libad-libbe caught nappingbe surprisedbe taken unawaresbe unpreparedcook updash off

Strong matches (16)

do offhandfakego off half cockedgo off half-cockedhave no planimprovisateimprovise
Adjective(1 words)
improvised discourse

Related words (26)

Verb(4 words)
improvizejamthink on one's feetwinging
jury rigjury-rigknock offlash upmake upplayplay by earscrap the planstrike offthrow offthrow togethertoss offtoss outvampwhip upwhomp upwing it

Related word relations

OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.

5 relation types

More general

17 entries
contendcopecreate musicdealdecision makingdoexecuteexpressget bygrapplemake domake outmanageperformperform musicproblem solving

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More specific

7 entries
impromptu talkimprovised accompanimentimprovised melodyimprovised soloimprovised speechimprovised strategyon the spot decision

Collocations

6 entries
extemporize discussionextemporize methodextemporize presentationextemporize responseextemporize speechextemporize technique

Inflections

3 entries

Derivations

4 entries

Sample sentences

6 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

"Will you please tell me whose music you have been playing?" . . . "It's nobody's, miss." "Do you mean you have been extemporizing all this time?"

Source: wiktionary

But while some of his predecessors liked to extemporize, Obama prefers the message to be just so.

Source: wiktionary

As the music came fresher on their ears, they danced to its cadence, extemporizing new steps and attitudes.

Source: wiktionary

The small jelly-speck, which we call the amoeba, has no organs save what it can extemporize as occasion arises.

Source: wiktionary

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