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adjective

Prompt adj. (compar. prompter; superl. promptest)

1.

Ready and quick to act as occasion demands; meeting requirements readily; not slow, dilatory, or hesitating in decision or action; responding on the instant; immediate; as, prompt in obedience or compliance; said of persons. "Very discerning and prompt in giving orders." "Tell him I am prompt To lay my crown at's feet." "And you, perhaps, too prompt in your replies."

2.

Done or rendered quickly, readily, or immediately; given without delay or hesitation; said of conduct; as, prompt assistance. "When Washington heard the voice of his country in distress, his obedience was prompt."

3.

Easy; unobstructed. (Obs.) "The reception of the light into the body of the building was very prompt."

Synonyms: Ready; expeditious; quick; agile; alert; brisk; nimble. Prompt, Ready, Expeditious. One who is ready is prepared to act at the moment. One who is prompt acts at the moment. One who is expeditious carries through an undertaking with constant promptness.

noun

Prompter n.

1.

One who, or that which, prompts; one who admonishes or incites to action.

2.

One who reminds another, as an actor or an orator, of the words to be spoken next; specifically, one employed for this purpose in a theater.

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Etymology of 'Prompter'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Prompter" Quotes from Famous Books

... family party—the unfailing result of a stable stock company with the parts always cast in the same mould. And it was almost an impromptu performance. Pinchas, from his proximity to the stage, could hear every word from the prompter's box, which rose in the centre of the footlights. The Yiddish prompter did not wait till the players 'dried up'; it was his role to read the whole play ahead of them. 'Then you are the woman who murdered my mother,' ...

— Ghetto Comedies • Israel Zangwill

... from Spain is the star of the present season. At rehearsal he is a fallen star, being extremely old and shaky, but at night his make-up is wonderful, and he draws large audiences, who witness his great scene of a detected thief in convulsions. The prompter is seated under a cupola in the centre of the stage near the footlights, as at the opera, and his duties are arduous. It devolves upon him to read over the part of each performer in a suppressed tone, and to direct their manner ...

— The Pearl of the Antilles, or An Artist in Cuba • Walter Goodman

... were not confused. How could he be at once stationed at my shoulder and shut up in my closet? How could he stand near me and yet be invisible? But if Carwin's were the thrilling voice and the fiery image which I had heard and seen, then was he the prompter of my brother, and the ...

— Stories by Modern American Authors • Julian Hawthorne

... who sat waiting his turn. But the effect of the recitation of "Palestine" was entirely unrivalled on that as on any other occasion. Reginald Heber,—a graceful, fine-looking, rather pale young man of twenty,—with his younger brother Thomas beside him as prompter, stood in the rostrum, and commenced in a clear, beautiful, melancholy voice, with perfect declamation, which overcame all the stir and tumultuous restlessness of the audience by the power and ...

— Pioneers and Founders - or, Recent Workers in the Mission field • Charlotte Mary Yonge

... sinking his voice from the indignant clearness with which it had addressed the prompter, to a ...

— More William • Richmal Crompton

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