prompting

Speech parts

1. prompting - Noun

2. prompting - Verb

Meaning

of Prompt

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

suggestion prompt lead leading cause behind moving occasion driving encourage encouraging induce motive incentive encouragement

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Antonyms

base break bottom approval consequence blocking

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Hypernyms

persuasion cue suasion

Phrases with the word

without prompting inner prompting

Examples

Man is the only one that knows nothing, that can learn nothing without being taught. He can neither speak nor walk nor eat, and in short he can do nothing at the prompting of nature only, but weep. Pliny the Elder

The beginning of a plot is the prompting of desire. Christopher Lehmann-Haupt

I hope to God that the inner strength that will vindicate my deeds will in good time spring forth from my own people. I have done as I had to on the prompting of my inner voice. Kurt Huber

This is the type of AI I am interested in-what can the human and machine do together, and not in the competition which can arise. ...There are doubts as to what fraction of the population can compete with computers, even with nice interactive prompting menus. Richard Hamming

This swaggering behavior has confounded historians, prompting them to wonder if Columbanus was a little off his rocker. But I think we may chalk up this attitude to his Irishness. Thomas Cahill

In what can it be so useful, as in prompting and improving the efforts of industry? Alexander Hamilton

Close letter words and terms

promptbook prompter prompter's box promptingly promptitude promptless