Antonyms for prompt
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English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:3.7 / 3 votes

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.

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

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

   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

   Antonyms:
   unready, sluggish, irresponsive, inactive

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

Matched Categories

1. • Cause
   • Cue

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms: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"

   Antonyms:
   unready, unpunctual, slow

   Synonyms:
   command prompt, prompting, suggestion

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

   Antonyms:
   unpunctual, unready, slow

   Synonyms:
   command prompt, prompting

3. promptadjective

   according to schedule or without delay; on time

   "the train is prompt"

   Antonyms:
   unpunctual, slow, unready

   Synonyms:
   immediate, quick, straightaway

4. promptadjective

   ready and willing or quick to act

   "she is always prompt to help her friends";

   Antonyms:
   unpunctual, slow, unready

   Synonyms:
   immediate, quick, straightaway

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"

   Antonyms:
   unpunctual, slow, unready

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

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

   give an incentive for action

   "This moved me to sacrifice my career"

   Antonyms:
   slow, unready, unpunctual

   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

7. prompt, inspire, instigateverb

   serve as the inciting cause of

   "She prompted me to call my relatives"

   Antonyms:
   unpunctual, slow, unready

   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

8. prompt, remind, cueverb

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

   Antonyms:
   unready, slow, unpunctual

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

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1. promptadjective

   Synonyms:
   quick, expeditious, ready, punctual, timely

How to use prompt in a sentence?

1. 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.

2. Paul Ryan:

   I look forward to the prompt completion of the intelligence committee's oversight work in this area now that they are getting the cooperation necessary for them to complete their work while protecting sources and methods.

3. Davide Tabarelli:

   We thought there was nothing like this in the Mediterranean ... it will prompt a rethink.

4. Carmen Rottenberg:

   Taking very prompt action is what's really critical to the agency.

5. Coventry Patmore:

   The more wild and incredible your desire, the more willing and prompt God is in fulfilling it, if you will have it so.

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