libbed

Made it up

Libbed is the past tense of lib, a verb clipped from liberate.

It appears mostly in the phrase ad-libbed, meaning improvised or spoken without preparation: She ad-libbed her way through the speech when the teleprompter failed.

Outside this compound, libbed is rare.

improvisation

improvised

Created without prior planning

extemporized · winged · freestyled · riffed · made-up · unrehearsed · spur-of-the-moment · impromptu · vamped · bluffed

political

feminist

Gender equality proponent

marched · rallied · protested · advocated · campaigned · organized · mobilized · empowered · radical · movement

Opposites
preparation

libbedmemorized

Stored in recall

scripted · rehearsed · prepared · recited · planned

Phrases
Family

libber

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