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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Then it might be improvised Shakespeare, and then it might be a live podcast.
From Los Angeles Times
“It was totally an improvised thing,” Jensen enthuses.
From Los Angeles Times
The film offers a softer fantasy: that warmth can be improvised, that collaboration counts, that love might arrive even when dinner does not.
From Salon
The Jewish composer recalled the niguns — wordless, improvised prayers — that he grew up hearing in synagogue, and he drew on that sense memory.
From Los Angeles Times
Naturally, some of the ideas Moore was listening to on these records and seeing in clubs on the Lower East Side began to shape his own understanding of improvised music.
From Los Angeles Times
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