To survive in a hostile environment, one must be able to improvise and be tenacious.
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Improvise
//ˈɪmpɹəvaɪz//
Synonyms for "improvise" (89 found)
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3 entriesderived
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7 entriesTranslations
43 translations across 31 languages.
Ancient Greek
1 entries- σχεδιάζω verb (to make something up as one goes on)
Arabic
1 entries- اِرْتَجَلَ verb (to make something up as one goes on)
Asturian
1 entries- improvisar verb (to make something up as one goes on)
Belarusian
1 entries- імправізава́ць verb (to make something up as one goes on)
Bulgarian
1 entries- импровизирам verb (to make something up as one goes on)
Catalan
1 entries- improvisar verb (to make something up as one goes on)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 即興 /即兴 verb (to make something up as one goes on)
- 现抓 verb (to make something up as one goes on)
Czech
1 entries- improvizovat verb (to make something up as one goes on)
Danish
1 entries- improvisere verb (to make something up as one goes on)
Dutch
1 entries- improviseren verb (to make something up as one goes on)
Finnish
2 entries- improvisoida verb (to make something up as one goes on)
- sepittää verb (to make something up as one goes on)
French
1 entries- improviser verb (to make something up as one goes on)
German
1 entries- improvisieren verb (to make something up as one goes on)
Greek
1 entries- αυτοσχεδιάζω verb (to make something up as one goes on)
Hebrew
1 entries- אַלְתֵּר verb (to make something up as one goes on)
Hungarian
2 entries- improvizál verb (to make something up as one goes on)
- rögtönöz verb (to make something up as one goes on)
Icelandic
3 entries- leika af fingrum fram verb (to make something up as one goes on)
- snarstefja verb (to make something up as one goes on)
- spinna verb (to make something up as one goes on)
Irish
1 entries- seiftigh verb (to make something up as one goes on)
Italian
2 entries- improvvisare verb (to make something up as one goes on)
- parlare a braccio verb (to make something up as one goes on)
Japanese
1 entries- 即興で verb (to make something up as one goes on)
Latin
1 entries- faciō ad libitum verb (to make something up as one goes on)
Māori
1 entries- tito ohia verb (to make something up as one goes on)
Norwegian
1 entries- improvisere verb (to make something up as one goes on)
Polish
2 entries- improwizować verb (to make something up as one goes on)
- zaimprowizować verb (to make something up as one goes on)
Portuguese
1 entries- improvisar verb (to make something up as one goes on)
Romanian
1 entries- improviza verb (to make something up as one goes on)
Russian
2 entries- импровизи́ровать verb (to make something up as one goes on)
- сымпровизи́ровать verb (to make something up as one goes on)
Spanish
3 entries- improvisar verb (to make something up as one goes on)
- payar verb (to make something up as one goes on)
- repentizar verb (to make something up as one goes on)
Swedish
1 entries- improvisera verb (to make something up as one goes on)
Ukrainian
1 entries- імпровізува́ти verb (to make something up as one goes on)
Vietnamese
3 entries- ứng biến verb (to make something up as one goes on)
- ứng tác verb (to make something up as one goes on)
- ứng tấu verb (to make something up as one goes on)
Sample sentences
15 total sentences available.
I'll just have to improvise.
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Let's improvise.
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Tom was forced to improvise.
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