Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to extemporize
Participle: extemporized
Gerund: extemporizing
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | extemporize |
| you | extemporize |
| he;she;it | extemporizes |
| we | extemporize |
| you | extemporize |
| they | extemporize |
Perfect
| I | have extemporized |
| you | have extemporized |
| he;she;it | has extemporized |
| we | have extemporized |
| you | have extemporized |
| they | have extemporized |
Past
| I | extemporized |
| you | extemporized |
| he;she;it | extemporized |
| we | extemporized |
| you | extemporized |
| they | extemporized |
Pluperfect
| I | had extemporized |
| you | had extemporized |
| he;she;it | had extemporized |
| we | had extemporized |
| you | had extemporized |
| they | had extemporized |
Future
| I | will extemporize |
| you | will extemporize |
| he;she;it | will extemporize |
| we | will extemporize |
| you | will extemporize |
| they | will extemporize |
Future Perfect
| I | will have extemporized |
| you | will have extemporized |
| he;she;it | will have extemporized |
| we | will have extemporized |
| you | will have extemporized |
| they | will have extemporized |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | extemporize |
| you | extemporize |
| he;she;it | extemporize |
| we | extemporize |
| you | extemporize |
| they | extemporize |
Perfect
| I | have extemporized |
| you | have extemporized |
| he;she;it | have extemporized |
| we | have extemporized |
| you | have extemporized |
| they | have extemporized |
Imperfect
| I | extemporized |
| you | extemporized |
| he;she;it | extemporized |
| we | extemporized |
| you | extemporized |
| they | extemporized |
Pluperfect
| I | had extemporized |
| you | had extemporized |
| he;she;it | had extemporized |
| we | had extemporized |
| you | had extemporized |
| they | had extemporized |
Conditional
Present
| I | would extemporize |
| you | would extemporize |
| he;she;it | would extemporize |
| we | would extemporize |
| you | would extemporize |
| they | would extemporize |
Perfect
| I | would have extemporized |
| you | would have extemporized |
| he;she;it | would have extemporized |
| we | would have extemporized |
| you | would have extemporized |
| they | would have extemporized |
Imperative
| you | extemporize |
| we | Let's extemporize |
| you | extemporize |
Verbs conjugated like 'extemporize'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'extemporize'
extemporise,
exteriorize,
temporize,
contemporize,
exteriorise,
temporise,
anteriorize,
categorize,
contemporise,
enterprise,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Latin ex tempore
3. English extempore
4. Proto-Indo-European *-id-
5. Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
6. Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
7. Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
8. Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor.
9. Late Latin -izōder.
10. Middle French -iserbor.
11. Middle English -isen
12. English -ize
13. English extemporize
14. From extempore + -ize.
Sample Sentences
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"Will you please tell me whose music you have been playing?" . . .
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"It's nobody's, miss."
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"Do you mean you have been extemporizing all this time?" [1881, George MacDonald, chapter 35, in Mary Marston:]
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But while some of his predecessors liked to extemporize, Obama prefers the message to be just so. [2009 March 5, Peter Baker, “The (very) scripted president”, in New York Times, retrieved 08 Nov 2011:]
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As the music came fresher on their ears, they danced to its cadence, extemporizing new steps and attitudes. [1860, Nathaniel Hawthorne, chapter 10, in The Marble Faun:]
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The small jelly-speck, which we call the amoeba, has no organs save what it can extemporize as occasion arises. [1879, Samuel Butler, chapter 5, in Evolution, Old & New:]
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The wine runs into pitchers, washing-basins, shards, chamber- vessels, and other extemporized receptacles. [1906, Thomas Hardy, The Dynasts, Part Second, Act Third:]
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His most famous words — "I have a dream" — were extemporized. [2003 August 25, Emily Eakin, “How King Shaped The Dream”, in New York Times, retrieved 08 Nov 2011:]
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The evidence of my eyes does not lead me to the conclusion that Woody Brown is communicating via a letter board. It leads me to the conclusion that he is randomly tapping the board and that his mother is extemporizing, whether consciously or not. [2026 April 2, Jill Bearup, 9:54 from the start, in Is The New York Times Punking Us?, via YouTube:]