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IPA: /prɒmpt/

Prompt is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 77 anagrams from letters in prompt (mopprt).

Definitions for prompt

noun

1. Commerce. a limit of time given for payment for merchandise purchased, the limit being stated on a note of reminder (prompt note) the contract setting the time limit.
2. the act of prompting.
3. something serving to suggest or remind.
4. Computers. a message or symbol from a computer system to a user, generally appearing on a display screen, requesting more information or indicating that the system is ready for user instructions.

Idioms

1. take a prompt, (in acting) to move or speak in response to a cue.

adjective

1. done, performed, delivered, etc., at once or without delay:
2. ready in action; quick to act as occasion demands.
3. quick or alert:
4. punctual.

verb (used with object)

1. to move or induce to action:
2. to occasion or incite; inspire:
3. to assist (a person speaking) by suggesting something to be said.
4. Theater. to supply (an actor, singer, etc.) from offstage with a missed cue or forgotten line.

verb (used without object)

1. Theater. to supply forgotten lines, lyrics, or the like to an actor, singer, etc.

Origin of prompt

1300-50; (v.) Middle English Medieval Latin prōmptāre to incite, Latin: to distribute, frequentative of prōmere to bring out, equivalent to prō- pro-¹ + (e)

Examples for prompt

But she was as tender as ever, unfailingly patient, prompt to come to him and slow to leave.

Sticks and stones may break your bones but, as some University of Oregon campus cops learned recently, names can prompt a lawsuit.

"I'd say that I was lucky to have half of the half that's left," was Emma's prompt retort.

Now every man to his station; be prompt, and be silent, and attend to the word of command.

I could not prompt him to go on, but he presently did so himself, desolately enough.

There is cautious optimism that this prompt action may have helped avert a broader outbreak.

Mamoon and his second wife, Liana, hope it will revive his reputation, and “prompt the reissuing of his books in forty languages.”

"It wasn't safe to bring them in the front way," was the Inspector's prompt reply.

Failing to attend to these things brings prompt disciplining or patient complaint.

For most people, just saying the name Manson is enough to prompt discomfort.