Adjective ad lib has 2 senses
  1. ad-lib, spontaneous, unwritten - said or done without having been planned or written in advance; "he made a few ad-lib remarks"
    Antonyms: scripted, written (indirect, via unscripted)
  2. ad-lib, extemporaneous, extemporary, extempore, impromptu, offhand, offhanded, off-the-cuff, unrehearsed - with little or no preparation or forethought; "his ad-lib comments showed poor judgment"; "an extemporaneous piano recital"; "an extemporary lecture"; "an extempore skit"; "an impromptu speech"; "offhand excuses"; "trying to sound offhanded and reassuring"; "an off-the-cuff toast"; "a few unrehearsed comments"
    Antonym: prepared (indirect, via unprepared)
,Adverbial ad lib has 1 sense
  1. ad lib, ad libitum, spontaneously, impromptu - without advance preparation; "he spoke ad lib"
,Noun ad lib has 1 sense
  1. ad-lib - remark made spontaneously without prior preparation; "his ad-libs got him in trouble with the politicians"
    --1 is a kind of remark, comment
    Derived form: verb ad-lib1
,Verb ad lib has 1 sense
  1. improvise, improvize, ad-lib, extemporize, extemporise - perform without preparation; "he extemporized a speech at the wedding"
    --1 is one way to perform, execute, do
    Derived form: noun ad-lib1
    Sample sentence:
    They will ad-lib the duet
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