ad lib: noun, adjective, adverb, verb

'𝗮𝗱 𝗹𝗶𝗯'

It is one of those words or compound words that are used as a noun, an adjective, an adverb and a verb.

ad lib (noun)

Something that you say in a speech or performance that you have not prepared or practised.

◆The chief guest's speech was full of ad libs.

◆In the last night's play, one of the actors forgot his lines in the middle but he managed to produce some brilliant ad libs that compensated well for the original lines.

ad-lib (adjective)

When you give a speech or a performance that you have not prepared or practised is an ad lib speech or performance.

◆The theatre artist gave an-ad lib performance and brought the house down.

ad lib (adverb)

If you give a speech or performance ad lib, you do it without preparing or practising.

◆I lost my notes so I had to deliver my lines ad lib.

ad-lib (verb)

To say something in a speech or a performance that you have not prepared or practised.

◆She abandoned her script and began ad-libbing.

◆So I was able to ad-lib and basically just be a friend of the spectators, and it seemed to work.

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Source: Oxford Dictionary

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Vivek Tripathi