improvize

A verb used to indicate the act of creating or performing something spontaneously without preparation.

• 🇩🇪Etwas spontan und ohne Vorbereitung erschaffen, aufführen oder tun; aus dem Stegreif handeln oder erfinden.

1. Perform without preparation B1 formal art

   To deliver a performance, speech, or piece of music spontaneously without prior planning.

   • The actor had to improvize his lines after forgetting them.
   • She decided to improvize a dance routine on stage.
   • The comedian expertly improvized jokes based on audience reactions.

   🇩🇪Improvisieren

   Synonyme: ad-libextemporisemake up

   Antonyme: planpreparerehearsescript

2. Create or invent quickly B2 informal

   To invent a solution, object, or story using available materials or ideas without prior preparation.

   • We had to improvize a shelter from branches and leaves.
   • He improvized a tool using a paperclip and a rubber band.
   • She improvized an excuse for being late to the meeting.

   🇩🇪improvisieren

   Synonyme: ad-libconcoctdeviseimproviseinventmake upthrow togetherwhip up

   Antonyme: planpremeditatepreparerehearse

• improvized past participle
• improvized past simple
• improvizing present participle
• improvizes third person singular