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Improvise vs Adlib - What's the difference?

improvise | adlib |

As verbs the difference between improvise and adlib

is that improvise is to make something up or invent it as one goes on; to proceed guided only by imagination, instinct, and guesswork rather than by a careful plan while adlib is an alternative spelling of lang=en.

As a noun adlib is

an alternative spelling of lang=en.

improvise

English

Verb

  • To make something up or invent it as one goes on; to proceed guided only by imagination, instinct, and guesswork rather than by a careful plan.
    • He had no speech prepared, so he improvised .
    They improvised a simple shelter with branches and the rope they were carrying.
    She improvised a lovely solo.

    Synonyms

    * fly by the seat of one's pants, play by ear, punt, think on one's feet, wing it

    Derived terms

    * improvisation * improvisational

    See also

    * extemporaneous * impromptu * off the cuff ----

    adlib

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)

    • Verb

    (adlibb)