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promptive

promptive adjective: serving as a prompt.

Adjective

promptive (comparative more promptive, superlative most promptive)

  1. Serving as a prompt.
    • It is promptive of serious reflection that some of the greatest thinkers of past ages accounted in such a way for the manifestation of Mind in providence.1892, James Tait, Mind in Matter: A Short Argument on Theism, page 2
    • In the promptive message mode, the user provides information in response to a descriptive message.1985, Patricia W. Hurst, Executive Control Systems in the Engineering Design Environment, (page 37)#

Forms of promptive

comparativemore promptive
superlativemost promptive

Origin of promptive

prompt + -ive

Questions about promptive

What does promptive mean?
Promptive means serving as a prompt.
What part of speech is promptive?
Promptive is an adjective.

Words near promptive in the dictionary

  1. promptingly
  2. promptings
  3. promptish
  4. promptitude
  5. promptitudes
  6. promptive
  7. promptless
  8. promptlike
  9. promptly
  10. promptness
  11. promptnesses

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