impromptu
noun
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
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
an extemporaneous speech or remark
a witty impromptu must not sound premeditated
Types & categories
- speech hypernym
Sense 2 adjective
with little or no preparation or forethought
his ad-lib comments showed poor judgment
Related & opposite
- unprepared similar to
Sense 3 adverb
without advance preparation
he spoke ad lib
Sense 4 noun
a short musical passage that seems to have been made spontaneously without advance preparation
Types & categories
- musical passage hypernym
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | speech |
| 2 | similar to | Related & opposite | unprepared |
| 4 | hypernym | Types & categories | musical passage |