English words for 'without previous thought or preparation'
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- without forethought
- determined by chance or impulse or whim rather than by necessity or reason
- having the power of driving or impelling
- proceeding from natural feeling or impulse without external stimulus
- characterized by undue haste and lack of thought or deliberation
- Actuated by impulse or by transient feelings; inclined to make rapid decisions without due consideration.
- Having the power of driving or impelling; giving an impulse; moving; impellent.
- (mechanics) Acting momentarily, or by impulse; not continuous – said of forces.
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- a short musical passage that seems to have been made spontaneously without advance preparation
- an extemporaneous speech or remark
- (music) A short musical composition for an informal occasion often with the character of improvisation and usually to be played solo.
- (by extension) Any composition, musical or otherwise, that is created on the spot without preparation.
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- (of the weather) Causing the air to be cold.
- Distant; said, in the game of hunting for some object, of a seeker remote from the thing concealed. Compare warm and hot.
- (of a person or animal) Feeling the sensation of coldness, especially to the point of discomfort.
- (databases) Rarely used or accessed, and thus able to be relegated to slower storage.
- (usually with "have" or "know" transitively) Perfectly, exactly, completely; by heart; down pat.
- Completely unprepared; without introduction.
- (painting) Having a bluish effect; not warm in colour.
- Without electrical power being supplied.
- Chilled, filled with an uncomfortable sense of fear, dread, or alarm.
- (usually with "have" transitively) Cornered; done for.
- (slang) Cool, impressive.
- Dispassionate; not prejudiced or partisan; impartial.
- (informal) Without compassion; heartless; ruthless.
- (of a thing) Having a low temperature.
- Affecting the sense of smell (as of hunting dogs) only feebly; having lost its odour.
- Unconscious or deeply asleep; deprived of the metaphorical heat associated with life or consciousness.
- (informal) Not radioactive.
- (firearms) Not loaded with a round of live ammunition.
- Unfriendly; emotionally distant or unfeeling.
- marked by errorless familiarity
- so intense as to be almost uncontrollable
- extended meanings; especially of psychological coldness; without human warmth or emotion
- feeling or showing no enthusiasm
- sexually unresponsive
- of a seeker; far from the object sought
- having lost freshness through passage of time
- without compunction or human feeling
- having a low or inadequate temperature or feeling a sensation of coldness or having been made cold by e.g. ice or refrigeration
- lacking originality or spontaneity; no longer new
- unconscious from a blow or shock or intoxication
- lacking the warmth of life
- (color) giving no sensation of warmth
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- (countable, pathology) A common, usually harmless, usually viral illness, usually with congestion of the nasal passages and sometimes fever.
- (uncountable, slang) Rheum; sleepy dust.
- (uncountable) A condition of low temperature.
- (with 'the', figurative) A harsh place; a place of abandonment.
- the sensation produced by low temperatures
- the absence of heat
- a mild viral infection involving the nose and respiratory passages (but not the lungs)
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- Presumed without analysis.
- (linguistics, conlanging) Developed entirely from scratch, without deriving it from existing languages.
- (logic) Based on hypothesis and theory rather than experiment or empirical evidence.
- Self-evident, intuitively obvious.
- based on hypothesis or theory rather than experiment
- involving deductive reasoning from a general principle to a necessary effect; not supported by fact
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- perform without preparation
- (transitive, music) To compose extemporaneously or improvise.
- (intransitive) To do something, particularly to perform or speak, without prior planning or thought; to act in an impromptu manner; to improvise.
- (transitive) To make or create ex tempore.
- (intransitive) To do something in a makeshift way.
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- Said or done without prior planning or prior writing.
- Controlled and directed internally; self-active; spontaneous movement characteristic of living things.
- Sudden, without warning.
- Proceeding from natural feeling or native tendency without external or conscious constraint.
- Done by one's own free choice, or without planning.
- Produced without being planted or without human cultivation or labor.
- Self-generated; happening without any apparent external cause.
- Arising from a momentary impulse.
- said or done without having been planned or written in advance
- happening or arising without apparent external cause
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- a performance given extempore without planning or preparation
- a creation spoken or written or composed extemporaneously (without prior preparation)
- an unplanned expedient
- The act of improvising, acting or going about something without planning ahead
- The act or art of composing and making music, poetry, and the like, extemporaneously
- Musical technique, characteristic of blues music.
- That which is improvised; an impromptu.
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- a performance given extempore without planning or preparation
- a creation spoken or written or composed extemporaneously (without prior preparation)
- an unplanned expedient
- The act of improvising, acting or going about something without planning ahead
- The act or art of composing and making music, poetry, and the like, extemporaneously
- Musical technique, characteristic of blues music.
- That which is improvised; an impromptu.
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- perform without preparation
- (transitive, music) To compose extemporaneously or improvise.
- (intransitive) To do something, particularly to perform or speak, without prior planning or thought; to act in an impromptu manner; to improvise.
- (transitive) To make or create ex tempore.
- (intransitive) To do something in a makeshift way.
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- a short musical passage that seems to have been made spontaneously without advance preparation
- an extemporaneous speech or remark
- (music) A short musical composition for an informal occasion often with the character of improvisation and usually to be played solo.
- (by extension) Any composition, musical or otherwise, that is created on the spot without preparation.
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- (of the weather) Causing the air to be cold.
- Distant; said, in the game of hunting for some object, of a seeker remote from the thing concealed. Compare warm and hot.
- (of a person or animal) Feeling the sensation of coldness, especially to the point of discomfort.
- (databases) Rarely used or accessed, and thus able to be relegated to slower storage.
- (usually with "have" or "know" transitively) Perfectly, exactly, completely; by heart; down pat.
- Completely unprepared; without introduction.
- (painting) Having a bluish effect; not warm in colour.
- Without electrical power being supplied.
- Chilled, filled with an uncomfortable sense of fear, dread, or alarm.
- (usually with "have" transitively) Cornered; done for.
- (slang) Cool, impressive.
- Dispassionate; not prejudiced or partisan; impartial.
- (informal) Without compassion; heartless; ruthless.
- (of a thing) Having a low temperature.
- Affecting the sense of smell (as of hunting dogs) only feebly; having lost its odour.
- Unconscious or deeply asleep; deprived of the metaphorical heat associated with life or consciousness.
- (informal) Not radioactive.
- (firearms) Not loaded with a round of live ammunition.
- Unfriendly; emotionally distant or unfeeling.
- marked by errorless familiarity
- so intense as to be almost uncontrollable
- extended meanings; especially of psychological coldness; without human warmth or emotion
- feeling or showing no enthusiasm
- sexually unresponsive
- of a seeker; far from the object sought
- having lost freshness through passage of time
- without compunction or human feeling
- having a low or inadequate temperature or feeling a sensation of coldness or having been made cold by e.g. ice or refrigeration
- lacking originality or spontaneity; no longer new
- unconscious from a blow or shock or intoxication
- lacking the warmth of life
- (color) giving no sensation of warmth
noun
- (countable, pathology) A common, usually harmless, usually viral illness, usually with congestion of the nasal passages and sometimes fever.
- (uncountable, slang) Rheum; sleepy dust.
- (uncountable) A condition of low temperature.
- (with 'the', figurative) A harsh place; a place of abandonment.
- the sensation produced by low temperatures
- the absence of heat
- a mild viral infection involving the nose and respiratory passages (but not the lungs)
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- without forethought
- determined by chance or impulse or whim rather than by necessity or reason
- having the power of driving or impelling
- proceeding from natural feeling or impulse without external stimulus
- characterized by undue haste and lack of thought or deliberation
- Actuated by impulse or by transient feelings; inclined to make rapid decisions without due consideration.
- Having the power of driving or impelling; giving an impulse; moving; impellent.
- (mechanics) Acting momentarily, or by impulse; not continuous – said of forces.
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- a short musical passage that seems to have been made spontaneously without advance preparation
- an extemporaneous speech or remark
- (music) A short musical composition for an informal occasion often with the character of improvisation and usually to be played solo.
- (by extension) Any composition, musical or otherwise, that is created on the spot without preparation.
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- Presumed without analysis.
- (linguistics, conlanging) Developed entirely from scratch, without deriving it from existing languages.
- (logic) Based on hypothesis and theory rather than experiment or empirical evidence.
- Self-evident, intuitively obvious.
- based on hypothesis or theory rather than experiment
- involving deductive reasoning from a general principle to a necessary effect; not supported by fact
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- Said or done without prior planning or prior writing.
- Controlled and directed internally; self-active; spontaneous movement characteristic of living things.
- Sudden, without warning.
- Proceeding from natural feeling or native tendency without external or conscious constraint.
- Done by one's own free choice, or without planning.
- Produced without being planted or without human cultivation or labor.
- Self-generated; happening without any apparent external cause.
- Arising from a momentary impulse.
- said or done without having been planned or written in advance
- happening or arising without apparent external cause