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pronto

/ˈpɹɒntəʊ/US/ˈpɹɑntoʊ/

pronto adverb: quickly, very soon, promptly.

Adverb

pronto (not comparable)

  1. (informal) Quickly, very soon, promptly.
    • I need to finish this assignment pronto.
    • “[…] I burst through the door with a pregnancy bump and shouted at him, pretending to be his mistress. I’ve never seen a man look so horrified in his life. I then went into a spontaneous lip-sync of ‘I Will Survive’.” (We need footage, pronto.)2024 September 12, Sam Damshenas, “‘A new direction for the franchise’: Drag Race UK stars on “mind-blowing” season 6”, in Gay Times

Adjective

pronto (comparative more pronto, superlative most pronto)

  1. (informal, rare) Quick, prompt.
    • For a pronto lunch, take a slice or two to work and team with a tasty salad.2014, Gurpareet Bains, “Turkey Meatloaf”, in The Superfood Diet, Bath, Somerset: Absolute Press, →ISBN, “Lunch” section, page 77
    • In pronto reaction time, Zeth chose to drive a black armored truck, […]2019, Allen Knox, “Under the Rabbit Skin”, in Afternoon Solipsism (Insinmind; 1), Bloomington, Ind.: Balboa Press, →ISBN

pronto meaning in Urdu

pronto in Urdu

بلاتاخیر, فوراً, جلدی سے

Examples of pronto in a sentence

  • If a host has a fever, get out of there pronto.2023, translated in 2025, Berta Páramo and translated by Marc Correa Haro, Lice: How to Survive on Humans, page 74:
  • With a pronto 'Poof' from Funky, Bronto the Brontosaurus appears.2020, Douglas J. Alford, “Dinos to Dinner”, in Stories – of Self & Sharing, Alford Books, →ISBN, page 8:

All 13 example sentences with pronto

Forms of pronto

comparativemore pronto
superlativemost pronto

Origin of pronto

Borrowed from Spanish pronto, from Latin prōmptus. Doublet of prompt.

Phrases with pronto

Questions about pronto

What does pronto mean?
Pronto means quickly, very soon, promptly.
What is pronto in Urdu?
Pronto in Urdu is بلاتاخیر, فوراً, جلدی سے. See Pronto meaning in Urdu.
How do you use pronto in a sentence?
If a host has a fever, get out of there pronto.
What part of speech is pronto?
Pronto can be an adverb or an adjective.
How do you pronounce pronto?
Pronto is pronounced /ˈpɹɒntəʊ/ (UK).

Words near pronto in the dictionary

  1. pronounlike
  2. pronounphobia
  3. pronouns
  4. pronouns demonstrative
  5. prons
  6. pronto
  7. pronto plate
  8. pronto plates
  9. pronto pup
  10. pronto pups
  11. prontosil

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: pronto (page history and authors); pronto (Urdu 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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