IMPROVISED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does improvised mean? 

• IMPROVISED (adjective)
  The adjective IMPROVISED has 1 sense:

1. done or made using whatever is available

  Familiarity information: IMPROVISED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• IMPROVISED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Done or made using whatever is available

Synonyms:

improvised; jury-rigged; makeshift

Context example:

the rock served as a makeshift hammer

Similar:

impermanent; temporary (not permanent; not lasting)

 Context examples 

In the course of the afternoon and evening these hints were enlarged on: various soft conversations were reported, and sentimental scenes represented; and, in short, a volume of a novel of fashionable life was that day improvised by her for my benefit.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)