Adjective: pronto
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more pronto |
| Superlative | most pronto |
Sample Sentences
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For a pronto lunch, take a slice or two to work and team with a tasty salad. [2014, Gurpareet Bains, “Turkey Meatloaf”, in The Superfood Diet, Bath, Somerset: Absolute Press, →ISBN, “Lunch” section, page 77:]
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In pronto reaction time, Zeth chose to drive a black armored truck, […] [2019, Allen Knox, “Under the Rabbit Skin”, in Afternoon Solipsism (Insinmind; 1), Bloomington, Ind.: Balboa Press, →ISBN:]
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Wow! With a pronto 'Poof' from Funky, Bronto the Brontosaurus appears. [2020, Douglas J. Alford, “Dinos to Dinner”, in Stories – of Self & Sharing, Alford Books, →ISBN, page 8:]
Adjectives inflected like pronto
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
Borrowed from Spanish pronto, from Latin prōmptus. Doublet of prompt. See: Spanish Adjectives '
pronto', Latin Adjectives '
prōmptus'.