Extemporary

Definition: Extemporary

Extemporary

Adjective

1. With little or no preparation or forethought; "his ad-lib comments showed poor judgment"; "an extemporaneous piano recital"; "an extemporary lecture"; "an extempore skit"; "offhand excuses"; "trying to sound offhanded and reassuring"; "an off-the-cuff toast"; "a few unrehearsed comments".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "extemporary" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1509. (references)

Synonyms: Extemporary

Crosswords: Extemporary

And so whoever has the legislative or supreme power of any common-wealth, is bound to govern by established standing laws, promulgated and known to the people, and not by extemporary decrees; by indifferent and upright judges, who are to decide controversies by those laws; and to employ the force of the community at home, only in the execution of such laws, or abroad to prevent or redress foreign injuries, and secure the community from inroads and invasion. (Second Treatise of Government)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Albanian

i papërgatitur (extemporaneous, extempore, off the cuff, unequipped, unprepared), i improvizuar (extemporaneous, impromptu, improvised, makeshift), i çastit (flashy, instant, instantaneous, momentary, offhand, offhanded). (various references)

Arabic 

‏مرتجل (ad lib, extemporaneous, extemporized, impromptu, improvised, off hand, pickup). (various references)

Bulgarian 

направен без подготовка (extemporaneous), импровизирано (extempore, offhand), импровизиран (candid, extemporaneous, extempore, impromptu, improvised, makeshift, off the cuff, offhand, rough and ready, scratch, unpremeditated). (various references)

Czech

extemporální (extemporaneous). (various references)

French

improvisé (extemporaneous, extempore). (various references)

German

unvorbereitet (extemporaneous, extemporize, unpremeditated, unprepared, unpreparedly, unpreventable), improvisiert (extemporaneous, impromptu, improvised, improvises, makeshift, scratch, unscripted, vamps), frei (available, bare, clear, disengaged, empty, free, freed, freelance, freely, fri, independent, liberal, loose, loosely, nonattached, not occupied, open, out of copyright, private, spare, unattached, unchecked, uncommitted, unengagedly, unenslaved, unfettered, unobstructed, unoccupied, unrestricted, untrapped, vacant). (various references)

Greek 

αυτοσχέδιοσ (extemporaneous, impromptu, improvised, offhand). (various references)

Hebrew 

מאולתר (impromptu, improvised). (various references)

Hungarian

rögtönzött (ad lib, ad-lib, extemporal, extemporaneous, extempore, hop, impromptu, improvisational, improvised, jury, makeshift, off hand, off-hand, scratch, snap, unpremeditated, unprompted, unrehearsed), rögtönző (extemporal, extemporaneous, extempore, extemporizer), hevenyészett (ad-lib, extemporal, extemporaneous, extempore, hasty, makeshift, quickie, quicky, rough, rough-hewn, sketchy). (various references)

Italian

estemporaneo (extemporaneous, impromptu, improvises, offhand), improvvisato (extempore, impromptu, improvised, makeshift, offhand, offhanded). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

俄仕立て (improvised). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

にわかじたて (improvised). (various references)

Pig Latin

extemporaryay.(various references)

Portuguese

improvisado (ad lib, cavalier, extempore, half-cocked, impromptu, improvised, jury, makeshift, offhand, offhanded, scratch, unpremeditated, unprepared). (various references)

Russian 

случайный (accidental, adventitious, aleatory, arbitrary, casual, chance, coincidental, contingent, episodic, extemporaneous, fortuitous, haphazard, happy go lucky, hit or miss, incident, incidental, jobbing, lucky, occasional, odd, passing, promiscuous, punative, random, spurious, stray), сделанный наспех (rough-and-ready), непредумышленный (unpremeditated). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

nespremno, improvizovan (extempore, improvised, makeshift, offhand). (various references)

Spanish

improvisado (extemporaneous, extempore, impromptu, improvised, makeshift, offhanded, rough and ready). (various references)

Swedish

extemporerad (extemporaneous, extempore), oförberedd (extemporaneous, extempore, impromptu, off hand, off the cuff, offhand, offhanded, unprepared, unprovided, unrehearsed), improviserad (extemporaneous, extempore, impromptu, scratch). (various references)

Thai

โ�"ยฉับพลัน. (various references)

Turkish

hazırlıksız (at half cock, extemporaneous, extempore, incautious, off the cuff, offhand, offhanded, unprepared, unprovided, unprovided for, unready, unrehearsed), doğaçtan yapılan (extemporaneous), anında yapılan (extemporaneous, extempore). (various references)

Ukrainian

випадковий (accidental, adventitious, aleatory, casual, chance, chanceful, circumstantial, coincidental, contingent, episodic, episodical, eventual, facultative, fortuitous, haphazard, happy go lucky, hit or miss, incident, occasional, occurrent, odd, pickup, promiscuous, random, stray, unpremeditated), ненавмисний (casual, inadvertent, involuntary, purposeless, undesigned, unintentional, unpremeditated). (various references)

Vietnamese 

ứng khẩu (extemporaneous, hand, improvisatory). (various references)

Misspellings

"Extemporary" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: exemplorary, extemporare. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: pyrometer, temporary.

-3 letters: exporter, perorate, reexport, tamperer.

-4 letters: apteryx, emperor, extrema, metopae, mortary, operate, parroty, partyer, pearter, portray, praetor, preterm, prorate, remoter, taperer, tempera, tramper.

-5 letters: ampere, armory, artery, eatery, emoter, empery, exempt, expert, export, martyr, meteor, metepa, metope, mopery, mortar, parrot, peroxy, perter, peyote, poetry, porter, prater, prayer, prearm, pretax, pretor, preyer, protea.

+2 letters: extemporarily.