Extempore Definition

ĭk-stĕmpə-rē
adjective
Spoken, carried out, or composed with little or no preparation or forethought.
An extempore speech.
American Heritage
Synonyms:
adverb
In an extemporaneous manner.
American Heritage
Without preparation; offhand.
A speech given extempore.
Webster's New World
Synonyms:
noun

Something improvised.

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Other Word Forms of Extempore

Noun

Singular:
extempore
Plural:
extempores

Origin of Extempore

  • From Latin ex (“immediately after”) + tempore, ablative singular of tempus (“time", "opportunity", "occasion”)

    From Wiktionary

  • Latin ex tempore ex of ex– tempore ablative of tempus time

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Extempore Sentence Examples

  • He was a great extempore preacher and exposed to the peril of the unconsidered "telling" phrase.

  • He gave instruction in the form of continuous lectures delivered extempore from brief notes.

  • But though painfully conscious how much his reputation as a writer was damaged by this extempore production, he was unable to resist the fatal facility of print.

  • In Mrs John Mills's life of her husband is an account of John Bright's first extempore speech.

  • On the 19th he opened parliament in a speech which, as he explained, he had to deliver extempore owing to "the treachery" of his secretary.

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Words Starting With

EEXEXT

Words Ending With

EREORE

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