ex tempore

1. 1.

   without preparation

   “I don't know the figures off-hand”

   Synonymsoff-hand

Questions about ex tempore

What does ex tempore mean?

ex tempore means "without preparation".

What is another word for ex tempore?

Close synonyms include off-hand. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is ex tempore a common word?

ex tempore is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.