improvised
Americanadjective
Related Words
See extemporaneous.
Other Word Forms
- improvisedly adverb
- unimprovised adjective
- well-improvised adjective
Etymology
Origin of improvised
Example Sentences
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Instead, we are presented with a set of writing scenes that are provisional, improvised, transitory and, in many senses, unreproducible.
Either way, Pedretti says she improvised constantly and always kept swinging until somebody said, “Cut.”
From Los Angeles Times
The film lives in its details — frost creeping along the walls, carbon dioxide levels rising, improvised fixes worked out step by step — as each small success only leads to the next crisis.
From Los Angeles Times
The improvised prison pens—everything from old army barracks and training camps, barns and fairgrounds, derelict cotton warehouses and tobacco factories—were emptied out.
On the next-to-last take, Lindo improvised, letting music take the place of words.
From Los Angeles Times
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