improvising
improvising is the present participle and gerund of improvise.
Meaning of improvise
Verb
improvise (third-person singular simple present improvises, present participle improvising, simple past and past participle improvised)
- To make something up or invent it as one goes on; to proceed guided only by imagination, intuition, and guesswork rather than by a careful plan.
- He had no speech prepared, so he improvised.
- Synonyms:
- fly by the seat of one's pants, play by ear, punt, think on one's feet, wing it
Noun
improvising (plural improvisings)
- improvisation
- With plenty of drive in the band's rhythms, and the trombone trio phraseology making for instrumental color along with the improvisings of the solo tootlers[…]1946 December 14, Billboard, volume 58, number 50
Forms of improvising
| plural | improvisings |
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Questions about improvising
- What does improvising mean?
- Improvising means improvisation.
- What is improvising the present participle and gerund of?
- Improvising is the present participle and gerund of improvise.
- What part of speech is improvising?
- Improvising is a noun.
- What is the plural of improvising?
- The plural of improvising is improvisings.
Words near improvising in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: improvising (page history and authors); improvise (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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