Extemporaneous

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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. -- {Ex*tem`po*ra"ne*ous*ly}, adv. --
     {Ex*tem`po*ra"ne*ous*ness},n.


     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  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}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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