Definition of Extemporaneous

1. Adjective. With little or no preparation or forethought. "A few unrehearsed comments"


Definition of Extemporaneous

1. a. Composed, performed, or uttered on the spur of the moment, or without previous study; unpremeditated; off-hand; extempore; extemporary; as, an extemporaneous address or production.

Definition of Extemporaneous

1. Adjective. without preparation or advanced thought; offhand ¹

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Definition of Extemporaneous

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Extemporaneous

extant
extasies
extasy
extatic
extatical
extatically
extatick
extatique
extein
exteins
extelligence
extemporal
extemporally
extemporanean
extemporaneity
extemporaneous (current term)
extemporaneous mixture
extemporaneously
extemporaneousness
extemporarily
extemporary
extempore
extempores
extemporisation
extemporisations
extemporise
extemporised
extemporises
extemporising
extemporization

Literary usage of Extemporaneous

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Christian Examiner (1850)
"LITURGICAL AND extemporaneous WORSHIP." THE Unitarian denomination has, from its origin, in this country, enjoyed the advantages of both modes of religious ..."

2. Forensic Oratory: A Manual for Advocates by William Callyhan Robinson (1893)
"The Preparation of an Oration: extemporaneous Orations: Mode of ... extemporaneous orations are of two classes: (i) Those in which the ideas and words are ..."

3. Introduction to the Literature of Europe in the Fifteenth, Sixteenth, and by Henry Hallam (1856)
"The extemporaneous comedy had al- Extempo- ways been the amusement of Ihe ... The extemporaneous comedy was called commedia dell' arte " It consisted," says ..."

4. The Methodist Review (1838)
"extemporaneous SPEAKING. ' AN ADDRESS TO THE LYCEUM OF THE ONEIDA CONFERENCE ... I. As a means for improving in extemporaneous address we would recommend, ..."

5. Homiletics and Pastoral Theology by William Greenough Thayer Shedd (1869)
"extemporaneous PREACHING. THE discussion of the subject of Homiletics would be incomplete if it did not include the topic of extemporaneous Preaching. ..."

6. Lessons in Vocal Expression: Processes of Thinking in the Modulation of the by Samuel Silas Curry (1895)
"All conversation, of course, is extemporaneous speaking. ... What is meant by extemporaneous speaking? It does not mean speaking without preparation, ..."

7. The American Presbyterian Review by Henry Boynton Smith, James Manning Sherwood (1867)
"NEW SERIES. NO. XVH.—JANUARY, 1867. ART. 1.—extemporaneous PREACHING. ... would be incomplete, if it did not include the topic of extemporaneous Preaching. ..."

8. Public Speaking, Principles and Practice by James Albert Winans (1915)
"The extemporaneous Speech. By the term extemporaneous we have come to describe ... The extemporaneous speaker can, also, profit more from the inspiration of ..."

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