Impromptu vs Late - What's the difference?
impromptu | late |
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.
Near the end of a period of time.
Specifically, near the end of the day.
(usually, not used comparatively) Associated with the end of a period.
Not arriving until after an expected time.
Not having had an expected menstrual period.
(deceased)(not comparable, euphemistic) Deceased, dead:
* , chapter=12
, title= Existing or holding some position not long ago, but not now; departed, or gone out of office.
Recent — relative to the noun it modifies.
* 1914 , (Robert Frost), (North of Boston) , "A Hundred Collars":
(informal) A shift (scheduled work period) that takes place late in the day or at night.
* 2007 , Paul W Browning, The Good Guys Wear Blue
After a deadline has passed, past a designated time.
formerly, especially in the context of service in a military unit.
:Colonel Easterwood, late of the 34th Carbines, was a guest at the dinner party.
As nouns the difference between impromptu and late
is that impromptu is (music) a short musical composition for an informal occasion often with the character of improvisation and usually to be played solo while late is (kind of) hatchet, axe, chopper.As an adjective impromptu
is improvised; without prior preparation, planning or rehearsal; extemporaneous; unplanned.impromptu
English
Adjective
(-)- The party began with an impromptu rendition of 'Happy Birthday'.
Synonyms
* See alsoNoun
(en noun)late
English
Adjective
(er)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=To Edward […] he was terrible, nerve-inflaming, poisonously asphyxiating. He sat rocking himself in the late Mr. Churchill's swing chair, smoking and twaddling.}}
- Lancaster bore him — such a little town, / Such a great man. It doesn't see him often / Of late years, though he keeps the old homestead / And sends the children down there with their mother
Usage notes
* (deceased) (term) in this sense is unusual among English adjectives in that it qualifies named individuals (in phrases like (term)) without creating a contrast with another Mary who is not late. Contrast (hungry): a phrase like (term) is usually only used if another Mary is under discussion who is not hungry.Noun
(en noun)- At about 11 pm one night in Corporation Street my watch were on van patrol and Yellow Watch were on lates as usual.
Adverb
(er)- We drove as fast as we could, but we still arrived late .