MEANING
To produce speech, performance, or an expedient through immediate invention rather than a fixed prepared text or plan.
Use it for
Words that belong together
- extemporize a speech
- extemporize a solution
On the page
He extemporized the speech after losing the manuscript.
She extemporized a solution from the available parts.
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Word forms
- Base
- extemporize
- Past tense
- extemporized
- Past participle
- extemporized
- Present participle
- extemporizing
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- extemporize
- Present continuous
- am/is/are extemporizing
- Present perfect
- have/has extemporized
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been extemporizing
- Past
- extemporized
- Past continuous
- was/were extemporizing
- Past perfect
- had extemporized
- Past perfect continuous
- had been extemporizing
- Future
- will extemporize
- Future continuous
- will be extemporizing
- Future perfect
- will have extemporized
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been extemporizing
Choose the auxiliary that agrees with your subject. These are constructions of one word, not separate entries.
Usage notes
Primary category: literary. Forms: extemporize; extemporizes; extemporized; extemporized; extemporizing Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Third-person singular: extemporizes.
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