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Pronunciation:
[ ˈadlˈɪb], [ ˈadlˈɪb], [ ˈa_d_l_ˈɪ_b]
The term "ad-lib" can be defined as improvising or spontaneously creating something on the spot. As such, there are many synonyms in English that can be used to convey a similar meaning. Some of these synonyms include extemporaneous, impromptu, spontaneous, unscripted, unrehearsed, off-the-cuff, spur-of-the-moment, improvisational, and offhand. Each of these words captures the idea that something is being created without a lot of forethought or planning. Whether it's making up a speech on the spot or improvising a melody on a musical instrument, ad-libbing requires a certain level of creativity, spontaneity, and quick thinking.
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Similar words for ad-lib:
- all (adjective)
- at one's pleasure (adjective)
- extemporaneous (adjective)
- impromptu (adjective)
- improvised (adjective)
- impulsive (adjective)
- off the cuff (adjective)
- other relevant words (adjective)
- rough-and-ready (adjective)
- spontaneous (adjective)
- spur-of-the-moment (adjective)
- unprepared (adjective)
- unrehearsed (adjective)
- impromptu (adjective, adverb)
- off the cuff (adjective, adverb)
- ad libitum (adverb)
- other relevant words (adverb)
- ad libitum (adverb)
- in an improvised manner (adverb)
- off the cuff (adverb)
- spontaneously (adverb)
- ad-lib (noun)
- extemporization (noun)
- other relevant words (noun)
- play it by ear (noun)
- conceive, dream up (verb)
- create, think up (verb)
- devise (verb)
- extemporize (verb)
- improvise (verb)
- improvise speech (verb)
- invent (verb)
- make up (verb)
- wing it (verb)
- other synonyms
- create
- extemporize
- make up
- other relevant words
- other relevant words (noun)
Synonyms for Ad-lib:
adj.
• all (adjective) • at one's pleasure (adjective) • extemporaneous (adjective)- snappest,
- more improvisatory,
- most on the spot,
- more jamming,
- jamming,
- most improvisatory,
- most on-the-spot,
- ex-temporary,
- most jamming,
- in-formal,
- in formal,
- more on-the-spot,
- more on the spot,
- ex temporary.
- more faked,
- more unscripted,
- most extemporized,
- most unscripted,
- un-studied,
- shot from hip,
- most improv,
- more vamped,
- most faked,
- un studied,
- more improviso,
- un-premeditated,
- more improv,
- un-scripted,
- more extemporized,
- most vamped.
- more band-aid,
- most autoschediastic,
- more bandaid,
- most band-aid,
- more band aid,
- fly by night,
- more autoschediastic,
- bandaid,
- most band aid,
- most bandaid.
- toss out,
- impulsive,
- Autoschediastic,
- break loose,
- impromptu,
- extemporary,
- uncontrived,
- snapper,
- off the cuff,
- on impulse,
- on-the-spot,
- on the spot,
- rough-and-ready,
- off-the-cuff,
- from the hip,
- Unartful,
- Improviso,
- shot from the hip,
- IMPROV,
- by ear,
- not rehearsed,
- band aid,
- free spirited,
- thrown together,
- unbidden,
- extemporaneous,
- wild-and-woolly,
- dashed off,
- thrown off,
- tossed off,
- unprepared,
- unpremediated,
- spontaneous,
- unscripted,
- Improvisatory,
- off top of head.
- jerry built,
- more wild-and-woolly,
- most wild-and-woolly,
- un refined,
- more wild and woolly,
- pro visional,
- jerrybuilt,
- un-refined,
- most wild and woolly,
- wild and woolly,
- rough and ready.
- most unpremediated,
- most unbidden,
- un planned,
- in-evitable,
- more unpremediated,
- un controlled,
- un artful,
- more unartful,
- un bidden,
- off top head,
- un-artful,
- most unartful,
- un sophisticated,
- un forced,
- in evitable,
- un conscious,
- un-planned,
- un-conscious,
- from hip,
- un-bidden,
- more unbidden,
- un intentional,
- un-compelled,
- most uncontrived,
- un constrained,
- un compelled,
- more uncontrived,
- un-forced,
- un-intentional,
- un-contrived,
- un-avoidable,
- un-controlled,
- un avoidable,
- un contrived.
a. & adv.
• impromptu (adjective, adverb) • off the cuff (adjective, adverb)adv
• ad libitum (adverb) • Other relevant words: (adverb)adv.
• ad libitum (adverb) • in an improvised manner (adverb) • off the cuff (adverb) • spontaneously (adverb)n.
• ad-lib (noun)- improvize,
- offhanded,
- offhand,
- unrehearsed,
- improvise,
- extemporise,
- extemporize,
- extempore,
- spontaneously,
- unwritten.
- ear.
v.
• conceive, dream up (verb) • create, think up (verb) • devise (verb)- de signs,
- throw together,
- threw together,
- dis covers,
- de-signed,
- de-vised,
- pre-paring,
- dis covered,
- de signed,
- thinks up,
- de-signing,
- trumping up,
- dis-covers,
- pre pare,
- faking it,
- de signing,
- de vise,
- throwing together,
- de-vise,
- masterminding,
- pre-pare,
- throws together,
- crafted,
- de vising,
- pre pares,
- headed trip,
- dis-cover,
- dis-covering,
- spark,
- pre pared,
- dopes out,
- pre-pared,
- de-signs,
- heads trip,
- de-sign,
- pre paring,
- faked it,
- think up,
- trumps up,
- blueprinting,
- come with,
- doped out,
- trump up,
- dis-covered,
- de vised,
- crafting,
- fake it,
- heading trip,
- de-vising,
- dope out,
- dis cover,
- blueprinted,
- fakes it,
- ADLIB,
- doping out,
- thinking up,
- ad lib,
- thought up,
- de sign,
- dis covering.
- ex-temporize,
- ex-temporized,
- doest offhand,
- ex temporize,
- dashing out,
- ex-temporizing,
- dashes out,
- doeth offhand,
- dost offhand,
- Improvisating,
- improvisates,
- doth offhand,
- ex temporizing,
- ex temporized,
- ex temporizes,
- ex-temporizes,
- dashed out,
- does offhand,
- doing offhand,
- didst offhand,
- Improvisated,
- tossing off,
- tost off,
- did offhand,
- tosses off.
- does top head,
- do top of head,
- does off top of head,
- slapdashed,
- doing off top head,
- do top head,
- doeth off top of head,
- doth off top of head,
- doth top of head,
- doeth top of head,
- doest top of head,
- speaking off cuff,
- wing it,
- didst off top of head,
- made do,
- does off top head,
- doest off top of head,
- didst top head,
- spoke the cuff,
- spake off cuff,
- improvs,
- spake the cuff,
- do off top head,
- dost off top of head,
- doeth top head,
- doing top of head,
- dashing off,
- dashes off,
- speaks cuff,
- do off top of head,
- make do,
- didst top of head,
- slapdashing,
- doth off top head,
- spoke cuff,
- does top of head,
- did top of head,
- spoke off cuff,
- speak cuff,
- didst off top head,
- speaks the cuff,
- speaking cuff,
- speak the cuff,
- speak off the cuff,
- speaking the cuff,
- slapdashes,
- doest off top head,
- dost top head,
- spake cuff,
- making do,
- did off top head,
- doeth off top head,
- improvved,
- doth top head,
- dost off top head,
- speaks off cuff,
- dost top of head,
- doing top head,
- did off top of head,
- makes do,
- dash off,
- did top head,
- speak off cuff,
- doest top head,
- doing off top of head,
- speaks off the cuff,
- improvving,
- spoke off the cuff,
- spake off the cuff,
- speaking off the cuff.
- authoring,
- in venting,
- bring in to being,
- off the cuffs,
- in vented,
- pro-duces,
- come up on,
- off the cuffed,
- in-venting,
- off-the-cuffing,
- in-vented,
- in-vents,
- off-the-cuffed,
- authored,
- in vent,
- bringing into being,
- brings into being,
- off the cuffing,
- in-vent,
- brought in to being,
- pro duce,
- brings in to being,
- Winging,
- off-the-cuffs,
- brought into being,
- in vents,
- pro duces,
- bring into being,
- bringing in to being.
- pre tending,
- re adies,
- storifying,
- storifies,
- pre tends,
- Fabulizing,
- Fabulized,
- fabulizes,
- pre-tends,
- re-adies,
- pre-tending,
- pre-tended,
- pre tend.
- did the top of your head,
- doeth top your head,
- does top of your head,
- does off top your head,
- did top of your head,
- doth off the top of head,
- did the top of head,
- did off the top of your head,
- doeth the top your head,
- didst off the top your head,
- didst top of your head,
- doth top of your head,
- doing off top of your head,
- did top your head,
- didst off top your head,
- doing the top of your head,
- do the top of your head,
- dost the top of your head,
- did off top of your head,
- doth top your head,
- doing off top your head,
- do the top of head,
- didst the top of head,
- did the top your head,
- doest off the top your head,
- doth off top of your head,
- do top your head,
- doeth the top head,
- do off the top of head,
- doing off the top of your head,
- doeth off top your head,
- does off the top of head,
- doth the top head,
- didst off the top of head,
- doing the top your head,
- did off the top your head,
- doth the top of head,
- doeth top of your head,
- doth off the top your head,
- didst top your head,
- doest top your head,
- doest the top head,
- does the top your head,
- doest top of your head,
- doth off top your head,
- does the top of your head,
- doeth off the top of head,
- doing the top of head,
- doing off the top of head,
- does top your head,
- dost off the top of head,
- dost top of your head,
- doing top of your head,
- does off the top head,
- do the top your head,
- doing off the top head,
- doeth the top of your head,
- do off top of your head,
- didst the top your head,
- didst off the top head,
- did off the top of head,
- dost off top your head,
- doest off top your head,
- doing top your head,
- do off the top your head,
- dost top your head,
- doeth off the top your head,
- does off the top of your head,
- doest off the top of your head,
- didst the top of your head,
- doest the top of head,
- do off the top head,
- doeth off top of your head,
- dost the top of head,
- doing off the top your head,
- dost off top of your head,
- doth off the top head,
- didst the top head,
- doest off top of your head,
- do off the top of your head,
- doest the top your head,
- doeth off the top head,
- do the top head,
- do top of your head,
- doeth the top of head,
- didst off top of your head,
- doeth off the top of your head,
- does off top of your head,
- doth off the top of your head,
- doth the top of your head,
- doth the top your head,
- dost off the top your head,
- doest off the top of head,
- does the top head,
- did the top head,
- doest off the top head,
- didst off the top of your head,
- does off the top your head,
- did off the top head,
- does the top of head,
- dost off the top head,
- dost the top head,
- dost off the top of your head,
- doing the top head,
- dost the top your head,
- doest the top of your head,
- do off top your head,
- did off top your head.
Other synonyms:
• create • extemporize • make up • Other relevant words:- looseness,
- looter,
- conciliate,
- spiel,
- declare,
- weight,
- oral presentation,
- offhandedly,
- break down,
- pop,
- cite,
- plunderer,
- maven,
- concur,
- direct,
- credit,
- burst forth,
- nonunionized,
- unwitting,
- reconcile,
- force,
- represent,
- excogitate,
- mechanically,
- even out,
- throw out,
- maintain,
- act out,
- bind,
- fudge together,
- defend,
- view as,
- viva,
- caption,
- cargo hold,
- frolic,
- roleplay,
- ps,
- enactment,
- vamp up,
- headliner,
- walkover,
- convenience,
- mount,
- pseud,
- talk through one's hat,
- core,
- turn to,
- come down,
- custody,
- imposter,
- manoeuvre,
- diddle,
- scenery,
- postponement,
- secret plan,
- hold back,
- cognitive content,
- capitulum,
- explode,
- be,
- manufacture,
- headlong,
- sermonise,
- false,
- burden,
- precipitous,
- lean,
- destination,
- level,
- reenact,
- bear,
- swordplay,
- contents,
- impersonate,
- commence,
- withstand,
- tattle,
- dally,
- circumstance,
- trigger off,
- extemporarily,
- fulfil,
- picnic,
- sport,
- overhasty,
- set up,
- blab out,
- bit,
- stage setting,
- reference,
- shmoose,
- preachify,
- keep,
- accommodate,
- excursus,
- common snapping turtle,
- contraption,
- escape,
- falsify,
- quicky,
- actor's line,
- comprise,
- glint,
- simulated,
- quick fix,
- book,
- inclined,
- organize,
- chide,
- adjudge,
- computer address,
- meet,
- go off at half-cock,
- spill,
- bullshit,
- spoken language,
- harbour,
- jowl,
- deem,
- public lecture,
- digression,
- slapdash,
- down,
- counterfeit,
- ginger snap,
- sparkle,
- bet,
- sensation,
- ordain,
- take,
- subject,
- romp,
- utter,
- virtuoso,
- ace,
- lead,
- even off,
- slant,
- jam,
- electric discharge,
- cracker bonbon,
- cargo area,
- monologue,
- game,
- have words,
- disposed,
- carry out,
- actuate,
- toss away,
- annotate,
- oral examination,
- deal,
- moralise,
- take hold,
- dump,
- snap bean,
- observe,
- manage,
- submaxilla,
- obligate,
- snap fastener,
- issue,
- dress down,
- pamperer,
- wangle,
- cooccurring,
- ham it up,
- carry through,
- plot of land,
- cast away,
- mention,
- speak,
- ham,
- fain,
- make for,
- tantrum,
- nonessential,
- postiche,
- deck,
- scuttlebutt,
- time lag,
- set off,
- take aback,
- act as,
- elasticity,
- pillager,
- madcap,
- trading floor,
- message,
- centering,
- spill the beans,
- jumble,
- photograph,
- natural,
- starring,
- contentedness,
- crack,
- arc,
- star topology,
- dash down,
- limn,
- berate,
- breeze,
- fling,
- leading,
- concord,
- cracker,
- patch up,
- chew up,
- retain,
- off her guard,
- process,
- child's play,
- inconsiderate,
- gloss,
- incidental,
- citation,
- tear,
- number,
- by,
- light,
- savoir-faire,
- role player,
- off his guard,
- mark,
- vamper,
- whizz,
- background,
- dissemble,
- guard,
- knock down,
- compensate,
- addendum,
- off your guard,
- snapshot,
- curb,
- bogus,
- have,
- apart,
- raider,
- put away,
- gambol,
- gadget,
- catch,
- self-produced,
- fun,
- nonunionised,
- scope,
- voice communication,
- go with,
- haphazardly,
- chew out,
- litigate,
- trifle,
- words,
- machinate,
- pour down,
- clutches,
- chuck out,
- legal action,
- grasp,
- contented,
- concurrent,
- harbor,
- genius,
- shammer,
- arrest,
- asterisk,
- deed,
- flicker,
- cross out,
- raise,
- make,
- activity,
- nurse,
- prevail,
- gingersnap,
- entertain,
- impostor,
- lead astray,
- halt,
- storage area,
- wait,
- attach to,
- discard,
- off-guard,
- rag,
- mandibular bone,
- mandible,
- snatch,
- belt down,
- appliance,
- whimsical,
- termination,
- think of,
- language,
- spike,
- kill,
- organise,
- on-the-scene,
- lambast,
- center,
- cracking,
- blab,
- dispose,
- speech communication,
- moderate,
- give,
- contain,
- spoken communication,
- stimulus,
- restrain,
- knock off,
- essence,
- begin,
- reserve,
- result,
- behave,
- divagation,
- activate,
- get away,
- come up to,
- shmooze,
- gismo,
- flirt,
- delivery,
- clutch,
- coincident,
- mouth,
- toy,
- accompany,
- detention,
- cast aside,
- oblige,
- talk of the town,
- recreate,
- make-do,
- start,
- lower jaw,
- quote,
- makeweight,
- remonstrate,
- standby,
- phoney,
- hatch,
- schmooze,
- lambaste,
- plow,
- stimulation,
- piece of cake,
- hold up,
- scold,
- fiddle,
- stimulant,
- strike out,
- trip,
- close,
- wizard,
- effectuate,
- devisal,
- sham,
- outcome,
- mental object,
- leavening,
- speech production,
- conclusion,
- auricle,
- get by,
- wreak,
- public speaking,
- tearaway,
- ball over,
- babble out,
- fit,
- concoct,
- subject matter,
- inadvertent,
- unintentional,
- precipitant,
- run,
- take for,
- lecturing,
- revamp,
- scratch off,
- fudge,
- constitute,
- bust,
- shoot,
- apply,
- confine,
- control,
- moralize,
- cinch,
- tease,
- lose it,
- obtain,
- sue,
- misrepresent,
- make out,
- shock,
- snatch up,
- playact,
- jaw,
- verbalize,
- bolt down,
- sloppy,
- click,
- pretender,
- fling off,
- pinna,
- accost,
- encounter,
- accomplish,
- capricious,
- discourse,
- substance,
- conniption,
- support,
- dodge,
- end,
- unorganised,
- hold in,
- pushover,
- throw,
- gist,
- hit-or-miss,
- get up,
- put to death,
- cross off,
- throw away,
- storey,
- touch off,
- keep back,
- dissertate,
- closing,
- speechmaking,
- fish,
- faker,
- constrain,
- military action,
- flooring,
- talking to,
- activeness,
- widget,
- gossip,
- grab,
- catch up with,
- defy,
- natural process,
- fulfill,
- delay,
- dramatic play,
- free rein,
- spark off,
- appreciation,
- sing,
- schmoose,
- verbalise,
- tilt,
- routine,
- filibusterer,
- rebuke,
- event,
- gambling,
- acknowledgment,
- gaming,
- call,
- talking,
- parenthesis,
- action at law,
- drink down,
- point out,
- pseudo,
- press stud,
- away,
- electronic jamming,
- toss,
- dream up,
- picture,
- story,
- principal,
- fall,
- peach,
- call on the carpet,
- plat,
- human activity,
- alternate,
- capacity,
- prospect,
- mandibula,
- turn,
- simultaneous,
- aspect,
- period of play,
- whiz,
- clasp,
- cover,
- driving,
- caper,
- discharge,
- go for,
- pretend,
- call down,
- base,
- place setting,
- despoiler,
- take to task,
- electric arc,
- ginger nut,
- cast out,
- move,
- have got,
- hotshot,
- cope,
- grapple,
- pay off,
- wager,
- bull,
- fraud,
- note,
- superstar,
- diagram,
- handle,
- shimmer,
- check,
- phony,
- action mechanism,
- natural action,
- shot,
- fabricate,
- flick,
- pay,
- off one's guard,
- aforethought,
- gizmo,
- oral exam,
- forge,
- rupture,
- minx,
- human action,
- plot of ground,
- babble,
- plotted,
- present,
- tip,
- context,
- oral communication,
- drama,
- name and address,
- mollycoddler,
- upshot,
- agree,
- lower jawbone,
- treat,
- coquette,
- clench,
- coddler,
- slipshod,
- coinciding,
- hotheaded,
- lash-up,
- grip,
- prickteaser,
- playing period,
- bring,
- formulate,
- let the cat out of the bag,
- counterbalance,
- wiz,
- patch,
- scramble,
- mavin,
- depicted object,
- work,
- trounce,
- trigger,
- faux,
- depict,
- blow out of the water,
- bastard,
- cook,
- bid,
- contend,
- notice,
- view,
- nonvoluntary,
- impetuous,
- bawl out,
- carry,
- cargo deck,
- adept,
- admit,
- unvoluntary,
- champion,
- snarl,
- imitation,
- buccal,
- sustain,
- vista,
- co-occurrent,
- correct,
- off guard,
- stratagem,
- maneuver,
- duck soup,
- prove,
- consequence,
- even up,
- commentary,
- twinkle,
- supplement,
- stellar,
- brainish,
- ex tempore,
- quickie,
- input signal,
- prima,
- overplay,
- take on,
- finish,
- handgrip,
- settle,
- contrive,
- reprimand,
- freebooter,
- manipulate,
- panorama,
- impression,
- coldcock,
- temporary expedient,
- manner of speaking,
- prepare.
- instinctive,
- haphazard,
- improvisation,
- surprised,
- portray,
- freely,
- overact,
- snap,
- spoiler,
- plot,
- makeshift,
- whip up,
- action,
- enact,
- strike off,
- hasty,
- leaven,
- ending,
- caught short,
- unintended,
- spur-of-the-moment,
- unorganized,
- fake,
- random,
- play,
- prepared,
- coincidental,
- aside,
- improvisational,
- filler,
- act,
- extemporisation,
- understudy,
- setting,
- jury-rig,
- involuntary,
- denouement,
- backstory,
- unplanned,
- effect,
- subtext,
- vamp,
- unstudied,
- unready,
- go off half-cocked,
- unconsidered,
- jury-rigged,
- scene,
- unhatched,
- arbitrary,
- content,
- oral,
- star,
- soliloquy,
- quotation,
- undevised,
- self-generated,
- precipitate,
- contrivance,
- subtitle,
- accidental,
- cook up,
- unpremeditated,
- longueur,
- postscript,
- COSTAR,
- stopgap,
- Unarranged,
- unmade,
- Whomp Up.
How to use "Ad-lib" in context?
What is an ad-lib? An ad-lib is a spontaneous addition to a performance, typically delivered on-the-spot while the performer is improvising. The term is derived from the term "ad libitum," which means at liberty. Ad-libs can be humorous or serious, improvised or written, conscious or unconscious. In improvisation, ad-libbing offers performers greater flexibility and a greater opportunity for discovery.
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