Extempore

Word EXTEMPORE
Character 9
Hyphenation ex tem po re
Pronunciations /ɛkˈstɛmpəɹi/

Definitions and meanings of "Extempore"

What do we mean by extempore?

Spoken, carried out, or composed with little or no preparation or forethought. adjective

In an extemporaneous manner. adverb

On the spur of the moment; without previous study or preparation; offhand: as, to write or speak extempore.

Extemporary; extemporaneous.

Synonyms See extemporaneous.

Language uttered or written without previous preparation. noun

Without previous study or meditation; without preparation; on the spur of the moment; suddenly; extemporaneously. adverb

Carried out with no preparation; impromptu adjective

Without preparation; extemporaneously adverb

Something improvised. noun

Without preparation adverb

With little or no preparation or forethought adjective

Without prior preparation adverb

Something improvised.

Synonyms and Antonyms for Extempore

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The word "extempore" in example sentences

Don Juan _Don Juan_ or _hooan_ drought _drowt_ drouth _drowth_ extempore _extempore_ (four syllables) familiarity _familyarity_ gaol _jal_ genealogy _-alogy_, not _-ology_ gemus _genyus_ ❋ Thomas Wood (N/A)

Then quoth he, “This is a strange manner of daily bread;” and he began re citing in extempore verse: — ❋ Unknown (2006)

It was irksome to realize that I could not connect my laptop to the projector, thus making useless the multi-page powerpoint I developed for my portion, but then again, talking extempore is never a problem for me. ❋ Dean Francis Alfar (2004)

Are not they well enough to be done off-hand; for that is the meaning of the word extempore, which you did not know, did you? ❋ Unknown (2003)

480 Then the gaolers built the cage481 over him and left him therein, lorn and lone, whereupon longing and consternation entered into him and the tongue of his case recited in extempore verse, ❋ Unknown (2006)

Besides that, there is now so little room or use for set speeches in our own language in any part of our English business, that I can see no pretence for this sort of exercise in our schools, unless it can be supposed, that the making of set Latin speeches should be the way to teach men to speak well in English extempore. ❋ Unknown (1909)

These seem to have been either like our dumb-shows, or else a kind of extempore farces -- a thing to this day a good deal in use all over Italy and in ❋ Various (N/A)

She usually repeated her tasks correctly, but was seldom able to make answers to questions for which she was not previously prepared with replies -- a kind of extempore examination, in which some of the children excelled. ❋ Legh Richmond (1799)

This is a kind of extempore ball, ladies, but one of these days we shall give you one in form. ❋ 1622-1673 Moli��re (1647)

(baton ferres, which end in knives or sword-blades, a kind of extempore billhook); -- looking nothing but hungry revolt. ❋ Thomas Carlyle (1838)

Go in with twenty ideas, lose all, go extempore, and then you vamp furiously. ❋ Unknown (2009)

His longtime friend and collaborator Martin Harrison supplemented this with a series of rather lovely extempore panegyrics about the photographer's talent, its roots and influences from dyslexia to love of birdwatching. ❋ Unknown (2012)

"Now seals are too wise," Collins explained one day, in a sort of extempore lecture to several of his apprentice trainers. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Another scene, a conversation between Hasan and his friend Saad (Osman Khalid Butt), was shot extempore. ❋ Unknown (2010)

But we all knew his tricks by now: he read a few lines from a hundred books and constructed his lecture narratives extempore with his dizzying connections. ❋ Unknown (2010)

I did as he asked and went downstairs, trying not to think about the task that now confronted him: speaking extempore to six hundred senators on a complicated bill he had only just seen, with the certainty that whatever he said was bound to infuriate one faction or the other. ❋ ROBERT HARRIS (2010)

Indian leaders either speak extempore or read from a written speech. ❋ Rama Lakshmi (2010)

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What does extempore mean?

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