Synonyms for prompt
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1. prompt

   Active refers to both quickness and constancy of action; in the former sense it is allied with agile, alert, brisk, etc.; in the latter, with busy, diligent, industrious. The active love employment, the busy are actually employed, the diligent and the industrious are habitually busy. The restless are active from inability to keep quiet; their activity may be without purpose, or out of all proportion to the purpose contemplated. The officious are undesirably active in the affairs of others. Compare ALERT; ALIVE; MEDDLESOME.

   Synonyms:
   active, agile, alert, brisk, bustling, busy, diligent, energetic, expeditious, industrious, lively, mobile, nimble, officious, quick, ready, restless, sprightly, spry, supple, vigorous, wide awake

   Antonyms:
   dull, heavy, idle, inactive, indolent, inert, lazy, quiescent, quiet, slow, sluggish, stupid

   Preposition:
   Active in work, in a cause; for an object, as for justice; with persons or instrumentalities; about something, as about other people's business.

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:5.0 / 3 votes

1. prompt

   Synonyms:
   ready, alert, responsive, active, quick, brisk, apt, unhesitating

   Antonyms:
   unready, sluggish, irresponsive, inactive

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:5.0 / 1 vote

1. prompt, promptingnoun

   a cue given to a performer (usually the beginning of the next line to be spoken)

   "the audience could hear his prompting"

   Synonyms:
   command prompt, prompting, suggestion

   Antonyms:
   unready, unpunctual, slow

2. prompt, command promptadjective

   (computer science) a symbol that appears on the computer screen to indicate that the computer is ready to receive a command

   Synonyms:
   command prompt, prompting

   Antonyms:
   unpunctual, unready, slow

3. promptadjective

   according to schedule or without delay; on time

   "the train is prompt"

   Synonyms:
   immediate, quick, straightaway

   Antonyms:
   unpunctual, slow, unready

4. promptadjective

   ready and willing or quick to act

   "she is always prompt to help her friends";

   Synonyms:
   immediate, quick, straightaway

   Antonyms:
   unpunctual, slow, unready

5. immediate, prompt, quick, straightawayverb

   performed with little or no delay

   "an immediate reply to my letter"; "a prompt reply"; "was quick to respond"; "a straightaway denial"

   Synonyms:
   immediate, straightaway, warm, fast, spry, speedy, ready, agile, nimble, quick, flying, contiguous

   Antonyms:
   unpunctual, slow, unready

6. motivate, actuate, propel, move, prompt, inciteverb

   give an incentive for action

   "This moved me to sacrifice my career"

   Synonyms:
   spark off, incite, remind, act, trip, motivate, spark, run, propel, impress, strike, impel, instigate, trigger off, move, displace, make a motion, trigger, inspire, prod, proceed, affect, be active, set off, go, activate, locomote, touch off, cue, travel, egg on, actuate, stir up

   Antonyms:
   slow, unready, unpunctual

7. prompt, inspire, instigateverb

   serve as the inciting cause of

   "She prompted me to call my relatives"

   Synonyms:
   enliven, actuate, cue, invigorate, instigate, inhale, urge, move, exhort, propel, motivate, barrack, remind, exalt, stir up, breathe in, revolutionise, revolutionize, pep up, urge on, animate, incite, inspire, root on, set off, cheer

   Antonyms:
   unpunctual, slow, unready

8. prompt, remind, cueverb

   assist (somebody acting or reciting) by suggesting the next words of something forgotten or imperfectly learned

   Synonyms:
   inspire, move, actuate, propel, motivate, instigate, incite, remind, cue

   Antonyms:
   unready, slow, unpunctual

Matched Categories

1. • Cause
   • Cue

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:5.0 / 3 votes

1. promptadjective

   Synonyms:
   ready, quick, apt

2. promptadjective

   Synonyms:
   early, timely, punctual

3. promptverb

   Synonyms:
   incite, induce, stimulate, impel, engage, incline, dispose, urge, set on, draw on

4. promptverb

   Synonyms:
   put in mind, give the cue to

5. promptverb

   Synonyms:
   dictate, suggest, hint

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated WordsRate these synonyms:5.0 / 1 vote

1. promptadjective

   Synonyms:
   quick, expeditious, ready, punctual, timely

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1. List of paraphrases for "prompt":

   rapid, speedy, quick, immediate, fast, swift, rapidly, expeditious, timely, early, indicator, quickly, promptly, ready, urgent, message, expeditiously, rapids

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How to use prompt in a sentence?

1. Karen Smith:

   Prompt investigation of cases, interviewing hundreds of contacts of infected people, vaccinating hundreds of at risk people, and increasing awareness among health care providers about measles, helped to control this outbreak.

2. Chris Rupkey:

   This sets up a dangerous situation where tighter credit conditions could prompt actual layoffs in the months ahead as corporations struggle to get costs under control.

3. Kim Sun-woo:

   There may be more prompt execution of funds or decision-making.

4. Cardinal John Newman:

   Half the controversies in the world are verbal ones; and could they be brought to a plain issue they would be brought to a prompt termination. Parties engaged in them would then perceive either that in substance they agreed together, or that their difference was one of first principles. We need not dispute, we need not prove, we need but define. At all events, let us, if we can, do this first of all and then see who are left for us to dispute; what is left for us to prove.

5. The BoE:

   A further retrenchment in risk appetite ... might prompt sharp moves in market prices.