What is another word for ad lib?
1650 synonyms found
Pronunciation:
[ ˈad lˈɪb], [ ˈad lˈɪb], [ ˈa_d l_ˈɪ_b]
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Similar words for ad lib:
- ad-lib (adjective)
- extemporaneous (adjective)
- extemporaneous/extemporary (adjective)
- impromptu (adjective)
- improvised (adjective)
- impulsive (adjective)
- off the cuff (adjective)
- other relevant words (adjective)
- rough-and-ready (adjective)
- spontaneous (adjective)
- unprepared (adjective)
- unrehearsed (adjective)
- other relevant words (adverb)
- ad-lib (adverb)
- ad libitum (adverb)
- all (adverb)
- off the cuff (adverb)
- extemporization (noun)
- off the cuff (noun)
- other relevant words (noun)
- ad-lib (verb)
- devise (verb)
- extemporize (verb)
- improvise (verb)
- invent (verb)
- other synonyms
- ad-lib
- make up
- other relevant words
Synonyms for Ad lib:
adj.
• ad-lib (adjective)- extemporaneous,
- unprepared,
- as one wishes,
- unrehearsed,
- according to pleasure,
- improvise,
- at will,
- as one thinks best,
- without restraint,
- off-the-cuff,
- Extemporized,
- extemporize,
- spontaneous,
- ad libitum,
- made-up,
- impromptu.
- automatic,
- casual,
- unplanned,
- informal,
- makeshift,
- expedient,
- unstudied,
- free,
- immediate,
- unpremeditated,
- ad hoc,
- snap.
- emotional,
- unconsidered,
- abrupt,
- mad,
- careless,
- instinctive,
- gone off deep end,
- passionate,
- swift,
- intuitive,
- unpredictable,
- quick,
- precipitate,
- headlong,
- violent,
- unprompted,
- unexpected,
- hot-and-cold,
- Unmeditated,
- hasty,
- rash,
- sudden,
- impetuous,
- flaky,
- devil-may-care.
- IMPROV,
- extemporary,
- at first glance,
- tossed out,
- on the spot,
- by ear,
- on impulse,
- spur-of-the-moment,
- Improviso,
- thought out loud,
- off the top of head,
- snapper,
- tossed off,
- taking for ride,
- off top of head,
- Improvisatory,
- spur of the moment,
- jamming,
- on-the-spot.
- inevitable,
- unbidden,
- unpremediated,
- uncompelled,
- uncontrived,
- up front,
- Unartful,
- unintentional,
- unavoidable,
- unforced,
- unsophisticated,
- free spirited,
- natural,
- from the hip,
- simple,
- uncontrolled,
- down,
- unconscious,
- irresistible,
- unconstrained,
- break loose,
- voluntary.
adv
• Other relevant words: (adverb)adv.
• ad-lib (adverb) • ad libitum (adverb) • all (adverb) • off the cuff (adverb)n.
• extemporization (noun) • off the cuff (noun)- cuff.
v.
• ad-lib (verb) • devise (verb) • extemporize (verb) • improvise (verb) • invent (verb)Other synonyms:
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•
- improvisation,
- set piece,
- spoiler,
- comic relief,
- subtitle,
- double for,
- postscript,
- longueur,
- scene,
- sequence,
- portray,
- filler,
- subtext,
- improvised,
- backstory,
- quotation,
- quote,
- leaven,
- overact,
- extemporization,
- invent,
- sound effects,
- soliloquy.
-
•
- contrivance,
- prologue,
- embellishment,
- footage,
- aside,
- enact,
- ending,
- title,
- setting,
- COSTAR,
- effect,
- speech,
- understudy.
-
•
- act.
-
•
- score.
- fictionalize,
- mingle,
- write,
- mix,
- Fabulize,
- join,
- combine,
- ready,
- put together,
- Storify,
- pretend,
- fix,
- merge,
- blend,
- meld,
- fuse.
- cause,
- even off,
- blunt,
- swan,
- asterisk,
- bizarre,
- deferred payment,
- game,
- push down,
- gear up,
- cut down,
- superstar,
- corporate trust,
- gambol,
- rakish,
- organize,
- arc,
- melt,
- devoid,
- matured,
- give birth,
- cast off,
- hatchback door,
- tyro,
- disembarrass,
- ram,
- gratuitous,
- lowbred,
- efflorescence,
- meet,
- innocent,
- retch,
- intent,
- gestate,
- headliner,
- turn off,
- fudge,
- frantic,
- freakish,
- scope,
- ideate,
- redact,
- uncomplicated,
- snatch,
- urinate,
- range,
- overhasty,
- pen,
- unsex,
- exclude,
- vamp up,
- apart,
- conspire,
- phrase,
- championship,
- conception,
- patch,
- playing period,
- ripen,
- alternate,
- wide-eyed,
- restore,
- speech communication,
- encounter,
- contribution,
- shuffling,
- shave,
- liberal,
- dim-witted,
- turn on,
- military volunteer,
- directly,
- context,
- brain,
- rove,
- bid,
- regorge,
- bump,
- represent,
- destitute,
- downwards,
- cast of characters,
- legal action,
- mould,
- demolish,
- mass,
- chuck,
- bang,
- headfirst,
- huffy,
- human action,
- eject,
- conceive of,
- shit,
- primitive person,
- view,
- fusee,
- innovation,
- comprise,
- lot,
- gratis,
- intention,
- engineer,
- center,
- take in,
- unstrained,
- relieve oneself,
- brainwave,
- situate,
- flirt,
- slaphappy,
- flank,
- detect,
- source,
- direct,
- mare's nest,
- gizmo,
- on-the-scene,
- barren,
- reference,
- compute,
- machinelike,
- fascinate,
- off guard,
- spring up,
- fixate,
- unlooked-for,
- organise,
- rock oil,
- take off,
- flock,
- neutralise,
- mastered,
- mending,
- form of address,
- educate,
- wander,
- divagation,
- untutored,
- fit,
- indite,
- farm,
- sue,
- recreate,
- get hold,
- mountain,
- freewheeling,
- dally,
- place setting,
- incognizant,
- jumble,
- influence,
- nonrational,
- beginner,
- trip out,
- counterbalance,
- relinquish,
- automatonlike,
- explode,
- skeleton,
- mention,
- common snapping turtle,
- champion,
- priming,
- unvoluntary,
- turn up,
- misrepresent,
- key out,
- casting,
- loose,
- consequence,
- subject,
- tantrum,
- sexual conquest,
- rubric,
- externalise,
- twinkle,
- chock up,
- trigger off,
- skin rash,
- low,
- superficial,
- mannequin,
- happy-go-lucky,
- get word,
- like a shot,
- fling off,
- ex tempore,
- pamperer,
- title of respect,
- wizard,
- roam,
- aggregate,
- neutralize,
- vehement,
- escape,
- pick up,
- physique,
- disgorge,
- imprint,
- assume,
- fictionalise,
- supplement,
- cracker,
- union,
- be,
- disclose,
- off-guard,
- spoken language,
- depict,
- archaic,
- conjure,
- mixing,
- dean swift,
- cracking,
- feign,
- passing,
- get on,
- exercise,
- disconnected,
- vomit up,
- hatful,
- mount,
- witness,
- disengage,
- refine,
- spur track,
- centering,
- dress,
- puddle,
- border,
- raw,
- happen,
- furbish up,
- location,
- intimate,
- conciliate,
- assemble,
- basket rummy,
- promptly,
- suppose,
- acquit,
- honk,
- faker,
- straight off,
- spue,
- principal,
- mix in,
- plaster cast,
- insane,
- resign,
- out of the question,
- deliver,
- desexualize,
- purpose,
- adept,
- haphazard,
- portmanteau word,
- burst forth,
- jury-rigged,
- suppurate,
- born,
- manufacture,
- correct,
- embroidery,
- obstruct,
- lay down,
- receive,
- defecate,
- fuddle,
- peck,
- bring forth,
- blue,
- block,
- take on,
- turn,
- discard,
- pseud,
- posit,
- spell,
- aggressively,
- boot out,
- goad,
- shoot,
- down pat,
- pioneer,
- hurl,
- buccal,
- do in,
- overplay,
- tally,
- voice,
- ps,
- deport,
- reckless,
- brainish,
- event,
- diagram,
- cook,
- barf,
- chronological sequence,
- propose,
- inescapable,
- backstage,
- excogitation,
- birth,
- break up,
- down feather,
- spew,
- settle,
- caper,
- devisal,
- finish,
- ignorant,
- blizzard,
- coalesce,
- deepen,
- plunderer,
- prompt,
- retrieve,
- pee,
- desex,
- acutely,
- tearaway,
- tidy sum,
- underframe,
- contain,
- now,
- behave,
- primer,
- panorama,
- toss,
- start,
- revamp,
- brood,
- scramble,
- reach,
- discovery,
- upchuck,
- robotlike,
- shot,
- get away,
- conceiver,
- drama,
- addle,
- give,
- obturate,
- component part,
- colonial,
- automatic rifle,
- spurt,
- flux,
- reparation,
- immix,
- drop a line,
- unversed,
- natural process,
- rough,
- wear,
- partially,
- amateurish,
- portmanteau,
- separate,
- sick,
- inverted comma,
- bolt,
- brewage,
- insight,
- contentedness,
- turnup,
- conjoin,
- division,
- maneuver,
- determine,
- fixture,
- in part,
- configuration,
- prima,
- expose,
- plaster bandage,
- fiddle,
- make believe,
- crimson,
- insouciant,
- self-produced,
- spontaneousness,
- statute title,
- purge,
- course credit,
- sight,
- outline,
- free rein,
- notice,
- essence,
- bring,
- chance upon,
- conformation,
- unknowledgeable,
- faux,
- clear,
- establish,
- strategy,
- graph,
- guess,
- vamper,
- pillager,
- take shape,
- breeze,
- scratch off,
- foxiness,
- cancel,
- take a crap,
- off your guard,
- jut,
- language,
- gad,
- get a line,
- bushel,
- falsify,
- gist,
- branch line,
- plenty,
- build,
- uncovering,
- talking to,
- endure,
- maturate,
- out of the blue,
- rule,
- leading,
- micturate,
- stopgap,
- clap up,
- stage,
- raffish,
- come down,
- skeletal system,
- have,
- dramatic play,
- snarl,
- arise,
- result,
- credit rating,
- think of,
- come across,
- trust,
- agile,
- contiguous,
- brainsick,
- framing,
- hop out,
- ineluctable,
- fudge together,
- human body,
- pile,
- protrude,
- ensnare,
- biological,
- brook,
- scenery,
- unify,
- piece of cake,
- whimsical,
- carry out,
- fancy,
- pretender,
- foresee,
- claim,
- rotate,
- induct,
- key,
- annex,
- let out,
- reflexive,
- hammer,
- liftgate,
- nimble,
- regulate,
- chance,
- hook,
- draw,
- digest,
- better,
- bull,
- words,
- self-gratification,
- worked up,
- successiveness,
- undreamt,
- format,
- complimentary,
- wiliness,
- impostor,
- entitle,
- pattern,
- catch up with,
- gross,
- phoney,
- articulation,
- ginger nut,
- divulge,
- grudge,
- impression,
- fling,
- touch off,
- link,
- drumhead,
- get up,
- appliance,
- manikin,
- fall in,
- cerebrate,
- arrive at,
- undreamed,
- activeness,
- prove,
- foolhardy,
- ameliorate,
- burden,
- looter,
- crude oil,
- delirious,
- partly,
- aspect,
- program,
- process,
- tiro,
- naive,
- give rise,
- inning,
- fixing,
- incur,
- dodge,
- carefree,
- glint,
- pundit,
- ascertain,
- recognition,
- amalgamate,
- get by,
- come out,
- limn,
- warm,
- unpractised,
- hurtle,
- frolic,
- forthwith,
- sum,
- portion,
- leavening,
- take a leak,
- romp,
- split up,
- make water,
- immingle,
- retell,
- manipulate,
- belt down,
- projection,
- cypher,
- thieve,
- ill-judged,
- throw out,
- fasten,
- retrace,
- cognitive content,
- word,
- percentage,
- crosshatch,
- entrap,
- material body,
- usher in,
- stamp,
- fender,
- mental object,
- vulgar,
- waste,
- excursus,
- knock down,
- fall upon,
- mold,
- luck into,
- tolerate,
- fly,
- free-and-easy,
- issue,
- prickteaser,
- free people,
- shimmer,
- intermingle,
- fraud,
- machination,
- muckle,
- make out,
- termination,
- workmanship,
- attain,
- repair,
- flick,
- go,
- voice communication,
- specify,
- concept,
- precipitous,
- break down,
- mollycoddler,
- simulated,
- widget,
- way,
- lick,
- mechanically,
- have a bun in the oven,
- snitch,
- incubate,
- flying,
- eccentric,
- section,
- compensate,
- polish,
- contend,
- outcome,
- age,
- brand,
- give up,
- junction,
- vista,
- pour down,
- draw up,
- grim,
- viva,
- gaming,
- put up,
- lifelike,
- fleet,
- oil,
- photograph,
- lead up,
- tearing,
- cat,
- regardless,
- prospect,
- variant,
- spoken communication,
- reconcile,
- monologue,
- manakin,
- explicate,
- dissemble,
- unknowing,
- spry,
- light upon,
- be sick,
- pack,
- solve,
- reconstruct,
- probationary,
- pull down,
- handcuff,
- ramble,
- physical body,
- rashly,
- jut out,
- fledged,
- learn,
- piddle,
- speedy,
- effectuate,
- inconsiderate,
- visualize,
- straightaway,
- component,
- describe,
- mixture,
- trip,
- unwrap,
- temporary expedient,
- even out,
- manner,
- coddler,
- prodding,
- wee-wee,
- ca-ca,
- reveal,
- right away,
- petroleum,
- piece,
- vagabond,
- turf out,
- schema,
- snapshot,
- substance,
- shoot down,
- hazard,
- function,
- slipshod,
- resistless,
- close,
- press stud,
- spark off,
- at first sight,
- define,
- dash down,
- activity,
- shake off,
- military action,
- invention,
- precipitately,
- drift,
- welter,
- stratagem,
- circumstance,
- by,
- identify,
- originator,
- grab,
- pseudo,
- perform,
- be after,
- send off,
- star topology,
- get to,
- precipitant,
- routine,
- plot of land,
- throng,
- vomit,
- canonic,
- stage setting,
- snap bean,
- cinch,
- tramp,
- secret plan,
- playact,
- enter upon,
- cover,
- flakey,
- simpleton,
- uncover,
- child's play,
- hachure,
- savant,
- irregular,
- period of play,
- set up,
- guile,
- away,
- garden truck,
- aim,
- blending,
- wild,
- act out,
- bumpkinly,
- kind,
- address,
- disunite,
- unblock,
- cabal,
- shammer,
- volunteer,
- rise,
- shuffle,
- office,
- doctor,
- reflex,
- ham,
- succession,
- give away,
- fuze,
- uncoerced,
- put,
- calculate,
- orchestrate,
- untaught,
- fossil oil,
- shortsighted,
- connect,
- unfreeze,
- reenact,
- bring out,
- admixture,
- western fence lizard,
- hotshot,
- soma,
- driving,
- phony,
- costless,
- class,
- nominate,
- programme,
- throw away,
- electronic jamming,
- affect,
- actuate,
- stick out,
- recover,
- work,
- contraption,
- strain,
- contented,
- limit,
- carry through,
- bring about,
- automatic pistol,
- tentative,
- detached,
- character,
- spate,
- willing,
- unloosen,
- complot,
- activate,
- breakthrough,
- postiche,
- cop,
- go through,
- spirt,
- figure,
- spiel,
- accredit,
- plot of ground,
- rustic,
- hick,
- move,
- aroused,
- touch on,
- phase,
- get down,
- pickle,
- dispose,
- bet,
- expect,
- skeletal frame,
- addendum,
- seduce,
- undreamt of,
- underbred,
- frame of reference,
- inexpert,
- whiz,
- find oneself,
- daily,
- disturbed,
- order,
- conniption,
- come up,
- labor,
- raise,
- profess,
- stray,
- deed of conveyance,
- see,
- present,
- jampack,
- handlock,
- feel,
- stimulate,
- oral exam,
- parting,
- off one's guard,
- gismo,
- electric discharge,
- harebrained,
- blend in,
- bod,
- pass water,
- rupture,
- picture,
- smother,
- realize,
- unimaginable,
- obtain,
- trifle,
- nonvoluntary,
- get,
- throw,
- end,
- hear,
- quotation mark,
- occasional,
- stack,
- unmannerly,
- nock,
- take over,
- urging,
- send,
- instantly,
- cunning,
- uncivil,
- green goods,
- canasta,
- senesce,
- combining,
- undertaking,
- save,
- visceral,
- chassis,
- bounderish,
- action at law,
- raft,
- drop,
- clutch,
- unmannered,
- electrical fuse,
- sparkle,
- heighten,
- gambling,
- chemical compound,
- intermixture,
- bust,
- snatch up,
- devour,
- mail,
- unimagined,
- citation,
- frame up,
- quickly,
- slap,
- electric arc,
- pay back,
- crack,
- earn,
- realise,
- variety,
- flicker,
- dismount,
- fast,
- off-the-wall,
- impersonate,
- freaky,
- discharge,
- style,
- put to death,
- line up,
- crazy,
- genius,
- contour,
- pay off,
- looseness,
- cracker bonbon,
- tack,
- human activity,
- smithy,
- light,
- spread out,
- fuzee,
- fun,
- train,
- pull in,
- down in the mouth,
- course,
- raider,
- regurgitate,
- strike,
- localisation,
- walkover,
- joint,
- tear,
- pop,
- account,
- unsubdivided,
- ill-bred,
- tease,
- figure out,
- blue-belly,
- core,
- progress to,
- mess,
- var.,
- accept,
- sterilise,
- manoeuvre,
- great deal,
- smack,
- sensation,
- closing,
- break,
- robotic,
- gadget,
- compendious,
- provisionary,
- childlike,
- unanticipated,
- rack up,
- abide,
- unite,
- groom,
- whomp,
- starring,
- occlude,
- downhearted,
- caption,
- imposter,
- prod,
- deed,
- snap fastener,
- run,
- believe,
- trigger,
- oral examination,
- drink down,
- green groceries,
- grapple,
- quite a little,
- round-eyed,
- close up,
- sterilize,
- mend,
- low-spirited,
- externalize,
- capacity,
- harum-scarum,
- false,
- downward,
- outre,
- ham it up,
- action mechanism,
- designing,
- novelise,
- integrate,
- conflate,
- effortless,
- commingle,
- stomach,
- piss,
- think,
- credit entry,
- cartel,
- stellar,
- desegregate,
- conceptualise,
- clap together,
- suffer,
- chuck out,
- let on,
- dramatis personae,
- craftsmanship,
- start out,
- conduct,
- pee-pee,
- impossible,
- glom,
- downcast,
- set,
- put away,
- find out,
- deal,
- impetuously,
- trigger-happy,
- depressed,
- liberate,
- crap,
- wad,
- designed,
- patch up,
- annexe,
- manage,
- hatchback,
- unworldly,
- support,
- acknowledgment,
- switch off,
- incompetent,
- catch,
- draft,
- chronological succession,
- toy,
- observe,
- canonical,
- roseola,
- actor's line,
- short,
- elementary,
- conceptualize,
- coquette,
- mickle,
- bullshit,
- set off,
- conclusion,
- cast out,
- subject matter,
- introduce,
- ace,
- desexualise,
- ornamentation,
- pot,
- message,
- draught,
- regain,
- sharp,
- release,
- precipitously,
- despoiler,
- makeweight,
- unbalanced,
- simple-minded,
- word form,
- freebooter,
- toss away,
- take form,
- intentional,
- writer,
- reckon,
- extemporisation,
- cursory,
- bolt down,
- cozy,
- bring in,
- stand,
- work up,
- juncture,
- premix,
- extension,
- theatrical role,
- virtuoso,
- take,
- unhorse,
- good deal,
- nonchalant,
- delivery,
- earthy,
- happen upon,
- sloppy,
- yield,
- bogus,
- gloomy,
- spare,
- set forth,
- develop,
- wangle,
- couch,
- novelize,
- downwardly,
- anatomy,
- impede,
- flesh,
- throw up,
- persona,
- depart,
- musical score,
- connive,
- divide,
- cite,
- elasticity,
- set out,
- consider,
- spine,
- make-do,
- share,
- lead,
- constitute,
- gingersnap,
- ill-mannered,
- fall,
- press,
- outlandish,
- plat,
- cope,
- intermix,
- unloose,
- get wind,
- image,
- role player,
- enactment,
- split,
- novice,
- distinguish,
- unproblematic,
- wager,
- puke,
- acquire,
- get together,
- relieve,
- amend,
- at once,
- ripe,
- name,
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- unhinged,
- elaborate,
- constituent,
- wee,
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- embodiment,
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- give voice,
- unprocessed,
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- depicted object,
- offhandedly,
- coiffe,
- mavin,
- scotch,
- chance on,
- pay,
- spring,
- oral communication,
- bad-mannered,
- uprise,
- capricious,
- kettle of fish,
- improvident,
- force,
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- passel,
- descriptor,
- learned person,
- take a shit,
- absolve,
- ordain,
- machine rifle,
- puzzle out,
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- pushover,
- lose it,
- architectural plan,
- imitation,
- localization,
- fulfill,
- meliorate,
- unseen,
- act as,
- standby,
- heap,
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- kill,
- dispirited,
- madcap,
- counterfeit,
- visualise,
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- dodging,
- mint candy,
- cipher,
- maven,
- digression,
- land,
- ruffle,
- manacle,
- enlightened,
- system,
- grade,
- make-believe,
- talk through one's hat,
- spend a penny,
- sore,
- convenience,
- yokelish,
- demented,
- ginger snap,
- craftiness,
- sham,
- innate,
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- tack together,
- shed,
- locating,
- roleplay,
- duck soup,
- framework,
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- brainiac,
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- dewy-eyed,
- everyday,
- mark,
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- lash-up,
- safety fuse,
- frame in,
- minx,
- consume,
- number,
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- sort,
- excogitate,
- picnic,
- commixture,
- comport,
- get out,
- cut,
- trade,
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- parenthesis,
- red,
- amateur,
- mode,
- articulate,
- hotheaded,
- click,
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- diddle,
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- generator,
- stark,
- einstein,
- splay,
- compile,
- condition,
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- grow,
- wreak,
- natural action,
- hatching,
- slew,
- excited,
- roll,
- make for,
- episode,
- coiffure,
- contents,
- bring on,
- unconscious mind,
- lecture,
- hold,
- cast away,
- kick off,
- offstage,
- carry,
- induce,
- manner of speaking,
- unrestrained,
- signifier,
- coif,
- role,
- fierce,
- cram,
- background,
- swordplay,
- hole,
- introductory,
- opine,
- accomplish,
- sum-up,
- crush,
- exempt,
- fix up,
- upshot,
- spurring,
- stool,
- grievance,
- compact,
- commix,
- heady,
- mob,
- fine-tune,
- bare,
- even up,
- cast aside,
- off his guard,
- liquidate,
- off her guard,
- crisply,
- region,
- litigate,
- link up,
- goading,
- deposit,
- mannikin,
- bastard.
How to use "Ad lib" in context?
Ad lib is an improvisational technique used in stage and film productions. A scripted scene is interrupted by improvisation, which often gives the scene a more natural feel. Ad libs can be comedic, dramatic, or simply add to the overall scene.
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