extemporizing

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A form of extemporize — To perform or speak without prior planning or thought; to act in an impromptu manner; to improvise.

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Meanings

verb
  1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of extemporize

    This was untrue. I am not even faintly like a rose. She was only extemporizing but a stirring warmth flowed from her as if her heart was trying to come out to you concealed in one of those breathless, thrilling words.

    1925, F[rancis] Scott Fitzgerald, chapter 1, in The Great Gatsby, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, published 1953, →ISBN
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APA

extemporizing. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/extemporizing

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“extemporizing.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/extemporizing. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “extemporizing,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/extemporizing.

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