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imprompt

imprompt adjective: not prompt; delayed.

Adjective

imprompt (comparative more imprompt, superlative most imprompt)

  1. Not prompt; delayed.
  2. (obsolete) Not ready.
    • Nothing, I think, in nature, can be supposed more terrible, than such a Rencounter,--so imprompt! so ill prepared to stand the shock of it as Dr. Slop was!1759, Laurence Sterne, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

Forms of imprompt

comparativemore imprompt
superlativemost imprompt

Origin of imprompt

From Latin imprōmptus. By surface analysis, im- + prompt.

Questions about imprompt

What does imprompt mean?
Imprompt means not prompt; delayed.
What part of speech is imprompt?
Imprompt is an adjective.

Words near imprompt in the dictionary

  1. improlific
  2. impromanga
  3. impromangas
  4. impromidine
  5. improminent
  6. imprompt
  7. impromptu
  8. impromptued
  9. impromptuing
  10. impromptuly
  11. impromptus

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