extemporaneously

1. 1.

   without prior preparation

   “he spoke extemporaneously”

   Synonymsextemporarilyextempore

Questions about extemporaneously

What does extemporaneously mean?

extemporaneously means "without prior preparation".

How many syllables are in extemporaneously?

extemporaneously has 7 syllables and divides as ex-tem-po-ra-ne-ou-sly under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for extemporaneously?

Close synonyms include extemporarily, extempore. 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.