extemporize
verb
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
- Direction
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Senses
Sense 1 verb
manage in a makeshift way; do with whatever is at hand
after the hurricane destroyed our house, we had to improvise for weeks
Types & categories
- grapple hypernym
Related & opposite
- temporary expedient derivation
Sense 2 verb
perform without preparation
he extemporized a speech at the wedding
Types & categories
- perform hypernym
Related & opposite
- extemporization derivation
- temporary expedient derivation
- improvisation derivation
- ad-lib derivation
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | temporary expedient |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | grapple |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | extemporization |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | temporary expedient |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | improvisation |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | ad-lib |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | perform |