| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| ad-lib |
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| PRONUNCIATION: |  d-l b |
| VERB: | Inflected forms: ad-·libbed, ad-·lib·bing, ad-·libs
| | TRANSITIVE VERB: | To improvise and deliver extemporaneously. | | INTRANSITIVE VERB: | To engage in improvisation, as during delivery of a speech. | | NOUN: | (dlb ) Words, music, or actions uttered, performed, or carried out extemporaneously.. | | ADJECTIVE: | Uttered, performed, or carried out spontaneously. See synonyms at extemporaneous. | | OTHER FORMS: | ad-libber —NOUN
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| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by the Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. |
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