prompt
Speech parts
1. prompt - Noun
2. prompt - Adjective
3. prompt - Verb
4. prompt - Adjective Satellite
Meaning
A limit of time given for payment of an account for produce purchased, this limit varying with different goods. See Prompt-note.
To assist or induce the action of; to move to action; to instigate; to incite.
To suggest; to dictate.
To remind, as an actor or an orator, of words or topics forgotten.
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A powerful agent is the right word. Whenever we come upon one of those intensely right words in a book or newspaper the resulting effect is physical as well as spiritual, and electrically prompt.
No one believes for a moment the embargo will prompt the Iraqi people to rise against Saddam Hussein.
It is one of my faults, that though my tongue is sometimes prompt enough at an answer, there are times when it sadly fails me in framing an excuse; and always the lapse occurs at some crisis, when a facile word or plausible pretext is specially wanted to get me out of painful embarrassment.
Brisk and prompt to war, soft and not in the least able to resist calamity, fickle in catching at schemes, and always striving after novelties - French characteristics remained unaltered twenty centuries after Julius Caesar made a note of them for all time.
When the will is prompt the legs are nimble.
A prompt refusal has in part the grace of a favour granted.