All off-the-cuff synonyms
off-the-cuff
O o adj off-the-cuff
- break loose — to free oneself by force
- low-pressure — having or involving a low or below-normal pressure, as steam or water.
- informal — without formality or ceremony; casual: an informal visit.
- at will — If you can do something at will, you can do it when you want and as much as you want.
- free-and-easy — enjoying personal rights or liberty, as a person who is not in slavery: a land of free people.
- improv — improvisation.
- down home — of, relating to, or exhibiting the simple, familiar, or folksy qualities associated with one's family or with rural areas, especially of the southern U.S.: down-home cooking; down-home hospitality.
- ad-lib — If you ad-lib something in a play or a speech, you say something which has not been planned or written beforehand.
- laid back — relaxed or unhurried: laid-back music rhythms.
verb off-the-cuff
- authored — a person who writes a novel, poem, essay, etc.; the composer of a literary work, as distinguished from a compiler, translator, editor, or copyist.
- authoring — Authoring is the creation of documents, especially for the Internet.
- winging — either of the two forelimbs of most birds and of bats, corresponding to the human arms, that are specialized for flight.
- invent — to originate or create as a product of one's own ingenuity, experimentation, or contrivance: to invent the telegraph.
adjective off-the-cuff
- casual — If you are casual, you are, or you pretend to be, relaxed and not very concerned about what is happening or what you are doing.
- impromptu — made or done without previous preparation: an impromptu address to the unexpected crowds.
- extemporaneous — Spoken or done without preparation.
- improvised — made or said without previous preparation: an improvised skit.
- extemporary — Extemporaneous.
- jamming — 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.
- extempore — Spoken or done without preparation.
adv off-the-cuff
- ad libitum — (to be performed) at the performer's discretion