ADJECTIVE
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with little or no preparation or forethought
his ad-lib comments showed poor judgment
offhand excuses
an extemporary lecture
an extempore skit
a few unrehearsed comments
trying to sound offhanded and reassuring
an off-the-cuff toast
an extemporaneous piano recital
an impromptu speech
How To Use extemporary In A Sentence
- It is said that he was the first to introduce extemporary praying in public worship, an important development which took place at this time.
- Il improvisatrice," was she styled by her admiring associates, whom she amused by the hour with her extemporary effusions of rhyme. Hubert's Wife A Story for You
- The judgment says what it says, and we are not going to say anything extemporary which modifies what we have said in the judgment.
- The format must be manipulated and contrived to prevent anything extemporary or natural from happening on the screen.
- Consequences were her most frequent choice; for, as she had a ready invention, and a happy turn of sprightliness, which was often mistaken for wit, nobody shone more in this kind of extemporary sallies than herself. Caroline; or, the Diversities of Fortune
- Such was his flow of thoughts, and such his promptitude of language, that in the latter part of his life he did not precompose his cursory sermons, but having adjusted the heads, and sketched out some particulars, trusted for success to his extemporary powers. The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes Volume the Eighth: The Lives of the Poets, Volume II
- Such was his flow of thoughts, and such his promptitude of language, that in the latter part of his life he did not precompose his cursory sermons, but, having adjusted the heads and sketched out some particulars, trusted for success to his extemporary powers. Johnson's Lives of the Poets — Volume 2
- It reflects the fact that it is a December 22 extemporary judgment, perhaps.
- My spirits were all in arms, and I played a kind of extemporary prelude. Maria, or, The Wrongs of Woman
- Exercise I have of late withdrawn my self: three Hours by the Clock he prays extemporary, which is, for National and Household Blessings: For the first -- 'tis to confound the Interest of the King, that the Lard wou'd deliver him, his Friends, Adherers and Allies, wheresoever scatter'd about the Face of the whole Earth, into the Clutches of the The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume I
