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Antonyms for improvise
ˈɪm prəˌvaɪzim·pro·vise

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  1. improviseverb

    Synonyms:
    fly by the seat of ones pants, wing it, think on ones feet, punt, play by ear

  2. improviseverb

    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.

    Synonyms:
    wing it, think on ones feet, punt, fly by the seat of ones pants, play by ear

Princeton's WordNet0.0 / 0 votes

  1. improvise, improvize, ad-lib, extemporize, extemporiseverb

    perform without preparation

    "he extemporized a speech at the wedding"

    Synonyms:
    ad-lib, improvize, extemporise, extemporize

  2. improvise, extemporizeverb

    manage in a makeshift way; do with whatever is at hand

    "after the hurricane destroyed our house, we had to improvise for weeks"

    Synonyms:
    ad-lib, improvize, extemporise, extemporize

How to use improvise in a sentence?

  1. Wayne Riley:

    You make it up, you improvise, you get creative in the times of disaster and epidemic. there's a lot of things that keep me up at night.

  2. Wayne Riley:

    We're really taking a lot of tactics from military medicine to do this disaster medicine, you make it up, you improvise, you get creative in the times of disaster and epidemic.

  3. Tom Vize:

    There were some pretty tight turns, we had some difficulty in the simulator, the computer couldn’t do them that tight, so we had to improvise, and it turned out great.

  4. Melissa McCarthy:

    I think it's really fun. We worked really, really hard on the script. We're constantly changing it at the end of each night of shooting, we re-evaluate has anything changed today that may affect the work tomorrow, we improvise tiny little bits. I improvise a lot but it never strays away from that map.

  5. Devin Booker:

    Teams aren't going to let you do what you did last game, it's as simple as that, so you have to find ways to improvise. You have to find little knicks and knacks to find ways to get it done. We did that game to game, we had to make adjustments.

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