Extemporaneous \Ex*tem`po*ra"ne*ous\, a. [See Extempore.]
Composed, performed, or uttered on the spur of the moment, or
without previous study; unpremeditated; off-hand; ad-lib;
extempore; extemporary; as, an extemporaneous address or
production. --
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
extemporaneous
adj : 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"; "an
off-the-cuff toast"; "a few unrehearsed comments" [syn:
ad-lib, extemporary, extempore, impromptu, offhand,
offhanded, off-the-cuff, unrehearsed]
WordNet (r) 2.0
52 Moby Thesaurus words for "extemporaneous":
ad lib, ad libitum, ad-lib, casual, caught napping,
caught off balance, caught short, extemporary, extempore,
extemporized, haphazard, hasty, impromptu, improvisatorial,
improvise, improvised, improviso, impulsive, informal, jury-rigged,
makeshift, off the cuff, off-the-cuff, offhand, precipitate,
rough-and-ready, snap, spontaneous, spur-of-the-moment, stopgap,
surprised, taken aback, taken by surprise, taken unawares,
tripped up, unarranged, unbegun, unconcocted, uncontrived,
undeliberated, undevised, unhatched, unmade, unmanufactured,
unorganized, unplanned, unpremeditated, unprepared, unprimed,
unready, unrehearsed, unstudied
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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