extemporize

动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To perform or speak without prior planning or thought; to act in an impromptu manner; to improvise. intransitive
    — "Will you please tell me whose music you have been playing?" . . . "It's nobody's, miss." "Do you mean you have been extemporizing all this time?"
  2. To adapt, improvise, or devise action or speech in an impromptu or spontaneous manner. transitive
    — As the music came fresher on their ears, they danced to its cadence, extemporizing new steps and attitudes.

词形变化

extemporizes present,singular,third-person extemporizing participle,present extemporized participle,past extemporized past extemporise alternative,Commonwealth

词汇关系

近义词
improvise think on one's feet devise
衍生词
extemporizer
相关词
extemporaneous extempore extemporization extemporisation temporalize temporize play it by ear off the cuff off the top of one's head

词源

Etymology tree
English extempore
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor.
Late Latin -izōder.
Middle French -iserbor.
Middle English -isen
English -ize
English extemporize
From extempore + -ize.
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