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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His costumes were carefully assembled and sometimes improvised.
From BBC • Apr. 4, 2026
These solutions were often tactical workarounds designed to patch critical issues in an improvised way.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 4, 2026
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 • Mar. 19, 2026
They move freely, obscuring borderlines between categories that once loomed like separate land masses: jazz and chamber music; acoustic and electric ensembles; songs and improvised forms.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 27, 2026
A good performer will be familiar with dozens of ragas and can improvise music — traditional classical music in India is improvised — using the accepted format for each raga.
From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones
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