ad hoc, caught off balance, extemporized, improvisatorial, makeshifty, rough-and-ready, taken by surprise, unarranged, undevised, unplanned, unrehearsed
Definitionadj. done or made using whatever is available
Last update: August 25, 2015
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In the old days, concertos included a cadenza which was to be improvised by the particular player. [adjective]
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Captain Gerlach made an emergency landing on an improvised airstrip and made preparations to take off with his precious cargo. [adjective]
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The count wished to go home, but Helene entreated him not to spoil her improvised ball, and the Rostovs stayed on. [Please select]
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Bossuet improvised a speaking-trumpet from his two hands placed around his mouth, and shouted: "Courfeyrac." [Please select]
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Blocks which were improvised like the rest and procured no one knows where. [adjective]
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There is necessarily required a certain modicum of antiquity in a race, and the wrinkle of the centuries cannot be improvised. [adjective]
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Before the improvised jail guards paced up and down, strangely alert. [Please select]
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Dorn rested comfortably beside her, upon an improvised couch. [Please select]
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