Adjective: prompt
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more prompt |
| Superlative | most prompt |
Sample Sentences
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He was very prompt at getting a new job.
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a prompt response
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Be prompt for your appointment.
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Tell him, I am prompt / To lay my Crowne at's feete, and there to kneele. [1623, William Shakespeare, Antony & Cleopatra, act 3, scene 8:]
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When physical crude oil transactions are priced, they are usually marked to the prompt month futures contract. The prompt month futures contract is the next futures contract to settle. [2013 July 5, Davis W. Edwards, Energy Investing DeMystified: A Self-Teaching Guide, McGraw Hill Professional, →ISBN, page 19:]
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The settlement ratio is determined as follows: i) If the prompt futures price of coal at maturity is less than or equal to the floor price, the ratio will be one. [2021 May 11, Neil C. Schofield, Commodity Derivatives: Markets and Applications, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 448:]
Adjectives inflected like prompt
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
1. The adjective is from Middle English prompte, from Middle French prompt and its etymon Latin prōmptus (“visible, apparent, evident”), past participle of prōmō (“to take or bring out or forth, produce, bring to light”), from prō (“forth, forward”) + emō (“to take, acquire, buy”). Doublet of pronto.
2. The verb is from Middle English prompen, apparently from the adjective. The noun is from the verb. See: Latin Adjectives '
prōmptus'.