Impromptu vs Extemporize - What's the difference?
impromptu | extemporize |
Improvised; without prior preparation, planning or rehearsal; extemporaneous; unplanned.
(music) a short musical composition for an informal occasion often with the character of improvisation and usually to be played solo.
any composition, musical or otherwise, that is created on the spot without preparation.
To do something, particularly to perform or speak, without prior planning or thought; to act in an impromptu manner; to improvise.
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To do, create, improvise, adapt, or devise in an impromptu or spontaneous manner.
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As a adjective impromptu
is improvised; without prior preparation, planning or rehearsal; extemporaneous; unplanned.As a noun impromptu
is (music) a short musical composition for an informal occasion often with the character of improvisation and usually to be played solo.As a verb extemporize is
to do something, particularly to perform or speak, without prior planning or thought; to act in an impromptu manner; to improvise.impromptu
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Adjective
(-)- The party began with an impromptu rendition of 'Happy Birthday'.
Synonyms
* See alsoNoun
(en noun)extemporize
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Alternative forms
* extemporise (mostly Commonwealth)Verb
(extemporiz)- "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?"
The (very) scripted president," New York Times (retrieved 8 Nov 2011):
- But while some of his predecessors liked to extemporize , Obama prefers the message to be just so.
- As the music came fresher on their ears, they danced to its cadence, extemporizing new steps and attitudes.
- The small jelly-speck, which we call the amoeba, has no organs save what it can extemporize as occasion arises.
- The wine runs into pitchers, washing-basins, shards, chamber- vessels, and other extemporized receptacles.
How King Shaped The Dream," New York Times (retrieved 8 Nov 2011):
- His most famous words — "I have a dream" — were extemporized .