Definition for Extemporize:

• To speak extempore; to discourse without notes or written composition.

Synonyms for Extemporize:

• adj.

  •ad-lib (adjective)
  • at will,
  • unrehearsed,
  • made up,
  • without restraint,
  • as one wishes,
  • as one thinks best,
  • ADLIB.

• n.

  •
  • plunge in,
  • happen to do something,
  • rush into,
  • tumble into,
  • plunge into,
  • drift,
  • chance,
  • fall into,
  • stumble into.
  •
  • prepared,
  • planned,
  • make up,
  • fake,
  • wing it.
  •play it by ear (noun)
  • ear.

• v.

  •ad-lib (verb)
  • spake impromptu,
  • speaking extemporaneously,
  • speak the cuff,
  • spake off the cuff,
  • in vent,
  • in venting,
  • in-venting,
  • speaks off the cuff,
  • spake extemporaneously,
  • ex temporizing,
  • in vented,
  • speaking off cuff,
  • speaking the cuff,
  • in-vented,
  • speaks cuff,
  • speak off cuff,
  • spoke the cuff,
  • in-vent,
  • speaks extemporaneously,
  • speaks off cuff,
  • spoke cuff,
  • spake cuff,
  • speaking cuff,
  • in-vents,
  • spoke off cuff,
  • in vents,
  • ex temporizes,
  • speaks impromptu,
  • spoke extemporaneously,
  • ex-temporizes,
  • spoke off the cuff,
  • spake the cuff,
  • ex-temporizing,
  • speaks the cuff,
  • spake off cuff,
  • spoke impromptu,
  • speak cuff,
  • speaking impromptu.
  •social (verb)
  • extemporize.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • perform,
  • entertain,
  • recite,
  • conjure,
  • tour.
  •
  • premiere,
  • pack in,
  • revive,
  • reprise,
  • regale,
  • amuse,
  • headline,
  • emcee.
  •
  • render,
  • debut.
  •
  • warm up,
  • appear.
  •
  • go on,
  • pull,
  • play.
  •
  • DO.
  •
  • open.
  •
  • support.
  •ad-lib
  • speaking off the cuff,
  • makes up,
  • speak off the cuff,
  • speak extemporaneously,
  • speak impromptu,
  • ad lib.

Antonyms for Extemporize:

• v.

  • improvise
    rehearse, prepare, plan, read.
  • Other antonyms:
    exercise, study, ponder, ready, lay, consider, arrange, contemplate, practice.

Extemporize Sentence Examples:

• I used to learn the songs by heart and invent and extemporize tunes for them.

• The mob were pressed back and comparative quiet restored, and when I finished the reading of my address I began to extemporize.

Homophones for Extemporize:

• extemporise.

Hyponym for Extemporize:

• v.

  • social
    get by, manage, make out, make do, grapple, contend, deal, cope.