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All improvisate synonyms

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verb improvisate

  • improvise — to compose and perform or deliver without previous preparation; extemporize: to improvise an acceptance speech.
  • ad-lib — If you ad-lib something in a play or a speech, you say something which has not been planned or written beforehand.
  • devise — If you devise a plan, system, or machine, you have the idea for it and design it.
  • invent — to originate or create as a product of one's own ingenuity, experimentation, or contrivance: to invent the telegraph.
  • knock off — an act or instance of knocking.
  • make up — the style or manner in which something is made; form; build.
  • play by ear — a dramatic composition or piece; drama.
  • toss off — to throw, pitch, or fling, especially to throw lightly or carelessly: to toss a piece of paper into the wastebasket.
  • brainstorm — If you have a brainstorm, you suddenly become unable to think clearly.
  • concoct — If you concoct an excuse or explanation, you invent one that is not true.
  • contrive — If you contrive an event or situation, you succeed in making it happen, often by tricking someone.
  • dream up — a succession of images, thoughts, or emotions passing through the mind during sleep.
  • throw together — to propel or cast in any way, especially to project or propel from the hand by a sudden forward motion or straightening of the arm and wrist: to throw a ball.
  • coin — A coin is a small piece of metal which is used as money.
  • extemporise — (intransitive) To do something, particularly to perform or speak, without prior planning or thought; to act in an impromptu manner; to improvise.
  • extemporize — Compose, perform, or produce something such as music or a speech without preparation; improvise.
  • fake — to lay (a rope) in a coil or series of long loops so as to allow to run freely without fouling or kinking (often followed by down).
  • jam — to press, squeeze, or wedge tightly between bodies or surfaces, so that motion or extrication is made difficult or impossible: The ship was jammed between two rocks.
  • spark — Muriel (Sarah) (Camberg) 1918–2006, British novelist and writer, born in Scotland.
  • dash off — If you dash off to a place, you go there very quickly.
  • improv — improvisation.
  • make do — something that serves as a substitute, especially of an inferior or expedient nature: We had to get along with make-dos during the war.
  • slapdash — in a hasty, haphazard manner: He assembled the motor slapdash.
  • wing it — either of the two forelimbs of most birds and of bats, corresponding to the human arms, that are specialized for flight.
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