Ad-lib Synonyms and Antonyms

ăd lĭb
To compose or recite without preparation
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. improvise
  2. extemporize
  3. make up
  4. fake
  5. improvize
  6. extemporise
Antonyms:
  1. plan
  2. write
  3. rehearse
  4. prepositionare
Something improvised
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. extemporization
  2. impromptu
  3. improvisation
  4. extemporaneousness
  5. planlessness
  6. improvision
  7. nonpreparation
  8. unfittedness
  9. unqualification
  10. unqualifiedness
  11. unsuitedness
  12. unbegun
Spoken, performed, or composed with little or no preparation or forethought
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. extemporaneous
  2. extemporary
  3. extempore
  4. impromptu
  5. offhand
  6. off-the-cuff
  7. unrehearsed
  8. improvised
  9. unwritten
  10. snap
  11. spur-of-the-moment
  12. uncontrived
  13. rough-and-ready
  14. offhanded
  15. unconcocted
  16. spontaneous
  17. undeliberated
  18. unmanufactured
  19. unprimed
Antonyms:
  1. planned
  2. written
  3. prepositionared
  4. rehearsed
  5. deliberate
Improvised
Synonyms:
  1. ad libitum
  2. spontaneously
  3. impromptu
  4. according to pleasure
  5. as one thinks best
  6. as one wishes
  7. at pleasure
  8. at will
  9. extemporaneous
  10. freely
  11. improvised
  12. impulsive
  13. made-up
  14. offhand
  15. off-the-cuff
  16. unrehearsed
  17. without restraint
  18. deliver extemporaneously
  19. extemporarily
  20. deliver spontaneously
  21. extemporize
  22. improvise
  23. play it by ear
  24. wing-it
Antonyms:
  1. prepositionared
  2. planned
  3. written
  4. deliberately
  5. rehearsed

Words Related to Ad-lib

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Related:

  1. invent
  2. prepared
  3. 24-track
  4. ProSessions
  5. Bullys
  6. out-of-tune
  7. one-liner
  8. wisecrack
  9. self-deprecate

Ad-lib Sentence Examples

  • This can usually be achieved by feeding ad lib good quality silage.

  • The milking cows are offered silage ad-lib and are never asked to eat right down to the last.

  • Attempts to " ad lib " always turn out to have been scripted all along.

  • Guitar 3 is also available in bass clef for a bass guitar ad lib.

  • He over- wintered stock on weedy cereal stubble, feeding ad lib oat or barley straw in the field.

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