extemporize
Collocations
2VERB + EXTEMPORIZE
liked
EXTEMPORIZE + NOUN
obama
Definitions
verb
To perform or speak without prior planning or thought; to act in an impromptu manner; to improvise.
"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?"
But while some of his predecessors liked to extemporize, Obama prefers the message to be just so.
To adapt, improvise, or devise action or speech in an impromptu or spontaneous manner.
As the music came fresher on their ears, they danced to its cadence, extemporizing new steps and attitudes.
The small jelly-speck, which we call the amoeba, has no organs save what it can extemporize as occasion arises.
Thesaurus
Synonyms
verb — perform without preparation
- improvise
- improvize
- ad-lib
- extemporise
verb — manage in a makeshift way
- improvise
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Idioms & Phrases
Example Bank
3"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?"
WiktionaryBut while some of his predecessors liked to extemporize, Obama prefers the message to be just so.
WiktionaryAs the music came fresher on their ears, they danced to its cadence, extemporizing new steps and attitudes.
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