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.

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1. prompt

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

   Antonyms:
   unready, sluggish, irresponsive, inactive

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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

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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. The BoE:

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

2. Stephen Massocca:

   It wasn't going to take much to prompt the decline, it's probably more resting than anything else. We've had a pretty significant move higher, we've marched straight up from 1,970 or so to about 2,100 so it's only natural that we are going to get a little bit of a pullback here.

3. Chilo:

   Be more prompt to go to a friend in adversity than in prosperity.

4. 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.

5. Stephen Massocca:

   It wasn’t going to take much to prompt the decline, it’s probably more resting than anything else. We’ve had a pretty significant move higher, we’ve marched straight up from 1,970 or so to about 2,100 so it’s only natural that we are going to get a little bit of a pullback here.