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Improvised   /ˈɪmprəvˌaɪzd/   Listen
Improvised

adjective
1.
Done or made using whatever is available.  Synonyms: jury-rigged, makeshift.  "The survivors used jury-rigged fishing gear" , "The rock served as a makeshift hammer"



Improvise

verb
(past & past part. improvised; pres. part. improvising)
1.
Perform without preparation.  Synonyms: ad-lib, extemporise, extemporize, improvize.
2.
Manage in a makeshift way; do with whatever is at hand.  Synonym: extemporize.



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"Improvised" Quotes from Famous Books



... the improvised tray when it was brought to him and went out with it, returning in ...
— Westerfelt • Will N. Harben

... yielded his improvised speaker's stand to Dr. Howard Bernais, the project technical director. Dr. Bernais was administrative and technical head of the entire project. Presumably he met with the section chiefs fairly often, but he had an office near John Gordon in the main ...
— The Scarlet Lake Mystery • Harold Leland Goodwin

... net gown, sat on Lord Redford's right hand at the hastily improvised dinner party that evening. Berenice, more subtly and more magnificently dressed, was opposite, by Mannering's side. The conversation seemed mostly to circle ...
— A Lost Leader • E. Phillips Oppenheim

... Prosper Panne. He began by picking up Mrs. Torrence's brown leather motor glove with its huge gauntlet, and examining it with the deliciously foolish bewilderment of the accomplished clown. After one or two failures, brilliantly improvised, he fixed it firmly on his head. The huge gauntlet, with its limp five fingers dangling over his left ear, became a rakish kepi with a five-pointed flap. Max—I mean Prosper Panne—wore it with an "air impayable." Out of his round, soft, putty-coloured face he made fifteen other faces ...
— A Journal of Impressions in Belgium • May Sinclair

... planted in it. Another, very much intoxicated, leaned from her window, and, regarding the whole matter as an agreeable entertainment, called down humorous remarks and ribald jokes to the oblivious audience. There was an improvised hook-and-ladder company pouring water where it was least needed, and a zealous self-appointed commanding officer who did nothing but shout contradictory orders; but as nobody obeyed them, and every man did just as he was inclined, it did not make any substantial ...
— Marm Lisa • Kate Douglas Wiggin


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