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promptly

Syllables: prompt·lyUK/ˈpɹɒmptli//ˈpɹɑmptli/

promptly adverb: both soon and quickly.

Adverb

promptly (comparative more promptly, superlative most promptly)

  1. Both soon and quickly.
    • […] the ducklings nestled down inside it and promptly fell asleep.1943 November – 1944 February (date written; published 1945 August 17), George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], Animal Farm […], London: Secker & Warburg, published May 1962, →OCLC
    • After being kidnapped by a seagoing ne'er-do-well, its Lady protagonist finds herself drifting through a passage at the North Pole into a wholly different world, with its own sun, moon and stars, and a population of bear-men, bird-men and fox-men who promptly make her Empress. Win!2011 May 11, Sam Leith, “Sam Leith's top 10 alternative realities”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 07 Mar 2021
  2. Exactly at a specific time.
    • The sale will begin on January 28th, promptly at 9 a.m.

promptly meaning in Urdu, Bengali, Malayalam and Kannada

promptly in Urdu

چٹ, وقت پر

promptly in Bengali

শীঘ্র, শিগ্গির, টকাটক, চট্পট্, চট্পটেভাবে

promptly in Malayalam

ക്ഷിപ്രം, വേഗത്തിൽ, ചുറുക്കോടെ, കണിശമായി

promptly in Kannada

ಕೂಡಲೇ, ಒಡನೆಯೇ, ತಕ್ಷಣವೇ, ಚುರುಕಾಗಿ
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promptly in Indonesian
segera

Examples of promptly in a sentence

  • She read my mind and promptly rose to get me a glass of water.
  • Congress promptly overrode the president's veto, passing the bill into law.
  • When I suggested it, he promptly rattled off a dozen reasons that it wouldn't work.

All 40 example sentences with promptly

Synonyms of promptly

Forms of promptly

comparativemore promptly
superlativemost promptly

Origin of promptly

From prompt + -ly.

Words formed from promptly

Questions about promptly

What does promptly mean?
Promptly means both soon and quickly.
What is promptly in Urdu?
Promptly in Urdu is چٹ, وقت پر. See Promptly meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is promptly?
Promptly is an adverb.
How do you pronounce promptly?
Promptly is pronounced /ˈpɹɑmptli/ (US).

Words near promptly in the dictionary

  1. promptitude
  2. promptitudes
  3. promptive
  4. promptless
  5. promptlike
  6. promptly
  7. promptness
  8. promptnesses
  9. promptress
  10. promptresses
  11. prompts

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: promptly (page history and authors); promptly (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); promptly (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); promptly (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); promptly (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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