'Improvisation' definitions:
Definition of 'improvisation'
(from WordNet)
noun
A creation spoken or written or composed extemporaneously (without prior preparation)
noun
An unplanned expedient [syn: improvisation, temporary expedient]
noun
A performance given extempore without planning or preparation [syn: extemporization, extemporisation, improvisation]
Definition of 'Improvisation'
From: GCIDE
- Improvisation \Im*prov`i*sa"tion\, n. [Cf. F. improvisation.]
- 1. The act or art of composing and rendering music, poetry, and the like, extemporaneously; as, improvisation on the organ. [1913 Webster]
- 2. That which is improvised; an impromptu. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'improvisation'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- action,
- ad hoc measure,
- ad lib,
- ad-libbing,
- answer,
- arrangement,
- artifice,
- authorship,
- beginning,
- cadenza,
- coinage,
- conception,
- concoction,
- contrivance,
- contriving,
- countermove,
- coup,
- course of action,
- creation,
- creative effort,
- demarche,
- device,
- devising,
- disqualification,
- dodge,
- effort,
- expedient,
- extemporaneousness,
- extemporariness,
- extempore,
- extemporization,
- fabrication,
- flourish,
- generation,
- gimmick,
- hatching,
- hot lick,
- impromptu,
- improvision,
- incapability,
- incompetence,
- interpolation,
- invention,
- jury-rig,
- jury-rigged expedient,
- lack of preparation,
- last expedient,
- last resort,
- last shift,
- lick,
- makeshift,
- making do,
- maneuver,
- means,
- measure,
- mintage,
- move,
- nonpreparation,
- nonpreparedness,
- origination,
- pis aller,
- planlessness,
- playing by ear,
- pro tempore,
- resort,
- resource,
- riff,
- shake-up,
- shift,
- solution,
- step,
- stopgap,
- stratagem,
- stroke,
- stroke of policy,
- tactic,
- temporary arrangement,
- temporary expedient,
- temporary measure,
- trick,
- trump,
- unfitness,
- unfittedness,
- unpreparedness,
- unqualification,
- unqualifiedness,
- unreadiness,
- unsuitability,
- unsuitableness,
- unsuitedness,
- vamp,
- vulnerability,
- working hypothesis,
- working proposition