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21extemporariness — extemporary ► ADJECTIVE ▪ spoken or done without preparation. DERIVATIVES extemporarily adverb extemporariness noun. ORIGIN from EXTEMPORE(Cf. ↑extempore) …
22William Shakespeare by Edmund Malone — ▪ Primary Source The following document is one of several portraits presented in Edmund Malone s Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of the English Stage (1800). In addition to a general examination of the origins of theatre in… …
23impromptu — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. extemporaneous. See unpreparedness. Ant., studied, prepared. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. extemporaneous, extemporary, extempore, improvised, unprepared, offhand; see also extemporaneous . Syn.… …
24extemporaneous — extemporaneous, extempore, extemporary, improvised, impromptu, offhand, unpremeditated mean composed, concocted, devised, or done at the moment rather than beforehand. Extemporaneous, extempore, and extemporary in their more general applications… …
25Bertsolaritza — is the art of singing extemporary composed songs in Basque according to various melodies and rhyming patterns. Bertsos can be composed at a variety of occasions but generally either by a solo bertsolari, in company between more than one… …
26extemporaneous — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. unpremeditated, spontaneous, extempore, improvised, impromptu, offhand, unprepared. See impulse, unpreparedness. Ant., planned, rehearsed. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. spontaneous, unpremeditated,… …
27offhand — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adv. casually, impromptu, extemporaneously; abruptly, carelessly. adj. casual, abrupt, extemporaneous, careless; unpremeditated, unplanned, impromptu. See unpreparedness.Ant., thought out, considered. II …
28ad-lib — I noun remark made spontaneously without prior preparation his ad libs got him in trouble with the politicians • Hypernyms: ↑remark, ↑comment, ↑input II verb perform without preparation he extemporized a spee …
29extemporarily — adverb without prior preparation he spoke extemporaneously • Syn: ↑extemporaneously, ↑extempore • Derived from adjective: ↑extemporary, ↑extemporaneous (for: ↑extempor …
30off-the-cuff — adjective with little or no preparation or forethought his ad lib comments showed poor judgment an extemporaneous piano recital an extemporary lecture an extempore skit an impromptu speech offhand excuses trying to sound offhanded and reassuring …
