Dictionary Entry
prompt
prompt is a 6-letter English word with 12 senses as noun, transitive verb, verb, and adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A limit of time given for payment of an account for produce purchased, this limit varying with different goods. See Prompt-note. Face value is 12 in Scrabble and 15 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
6 letters · Scrabble 12 · Words With Friends 15 · 12 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
A limit of time given for payment of an account for produce purchased, this limit varying with different goods. See Prompt-note.
- 2transitive verb
To assist or induce the action of; to move to action; to instigate; to incite.
- 3transitive verb
To suggest; to dictate.
- 4transitive verb
To remind, as an actor or an orator, of words or topics forgotten.
- 5noun
(computer science) a symbol that appears on the computer screen to indicate that the computer is ready to receive a command
- 6noun
a cue given to a performer (usually the beginning of the next line to be spoken)
"the audience could hear his prompting"
Synonyms
- 7verb
serve as the inciting cause of
"She prompted me to call my relatives"
- 8verb
assist (somebody acting or reciting) by suggesting the next words of something forgotten or imperfectly learned
- 9verb
give an incentive for action
"This moved me to sacrifice my career"
- 10adjective
performed with little or no delay
"an immediate reply to my letter"
"a prompt reply"
Synonyms
- 11adjective
according to schedule or without delay; on time
"the train is prompt"
- 12adjective
ready and willing or quick to act
"she is always prompt to help her friends"
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