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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

ad lib, ad libitum, ad-lib, casual, caught napping, caught off balance, caught short, extemporary, extempore, extemporized, haphazard, hasty, impromptu, improvisatorial, improvise, improvised, improviso, impulsive, informal, jury-rigged, makeshift, off the cuff, off-the-cuff, offhand, precipitate, rough-and-ready, snap, spontaneous, spur-of-the-moment, stopgap, surprised, taken aback, taken by surprise, taken unawares, tripped up, unarranged, unbegun, unconcocted, uncontrived, undeliberated, undevised, unhatched, unmade, unmanufactured, unorganized, unplanned, unpremeditated, unprepared, unprimed, unready, unrehearsed, unstudied

Dictionary Results for extemporaneous:

1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)

extemporaneous
    adj 1: with little or no preparation or forethought; "his ad-lib
           comments showed poor judgment"; "an extemporaneous piano
           recital"; "an extemporary lecture"; "an extempore skit";
           "an impromptu speech"; "offhand excuses"; "trying to
           sound offhanded and reassuring"; "an off-the-cuff toast";
           "a few unrehearsed comments" [syn: ad-lib,
           extemporaneous, extemporary, extempore,
           impromptu, offhand, offhanded, off-the-cuff,
           unrehearsed]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Extemporaneous \Ex*tem`po*ra"ne*ous\, a. [See Extempore.]
   Composed, performed, or uttered on the spur of the moment, or
   without previous study; unpremeditated; off-hand; ad-lib;
   extempore; extemporary; as, an extemporaneous address or
   production. -- Ex*tem`po*ra"ne*ous*ly, adv. --
   Ex*tem`po*ra"ne*ous*ness,n.
   [1913 Webster]

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