Meaning

6 senses

  1. (transitive)To lead (someone) toward what they should say or do.

    I prompted him to get a new job.

    veranlassen, dazu bringen, antreiben

    побужда́тьpobuždátʹ, внуша́тьvnušátʹ

    спонука́тиsponukáty, заохо́чуватиzaoxóčuvaty

  2. (transitive)To say (something) in order to help or encourage someone to speak.

    "How did you solve the issue then?" Jason prompted while staring at Lana.

  3. (transitive)To show or tell (an actor/person) the words they should be saying, or actions they should be doing.

    If he forgets his words I will prompt him.

    vorsagen, vormachen

    подска́зыватьpodskázyvatʹ, суфли́роватьsuflírovatʹ

    підка́зуватиpidkázuvaty, підказа́тиpidkazáty

  4. (transitive)To initiate; to cause or lead to.

    verursachen

    serve as the inciting cause of

  5. (transitive)To request (a user) to provide input or do something on a computer.

    The script prompted him to enter his credit account number.

  6. (transitive)To provide textual input in the form of ordinary language to (an artificial intelligence or language model) to have it generate a desired output.

    I want to prompt this new AI art generator to create an image of a panda riding a bike.

    prompten

Examples

58 sentences

  1. What prompted you to do that?

    Чому ви це зробили?

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  2. I was wondering what prompted that decision.

    Мені було цікаво, що призвело до такого рішення.

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  3. Thank you for your prompt reply.

    Дякуємо за швидку відповідь.

    ruСпасибо за быстрый ответ.

    deVielen Dank für die schnelle Antwort.

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  4. His prompt action prevented an epidemic.

    ruЕго оперативные действия предотвратили эпидемию.

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  5. Tom was promised a prompt reply.

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Translations

7 languages
Українська
By meaning 2
to lead someone toward what they should say or do:
to show or tell an actor/person the words they should be saying, or actions they should be doing:
Русский
By meaning 2
to lead someone toward what they should say or do:
to show or tell an actor/person the words they should be saying, or actions they should be doing:
Deutsch
By meaning 4
to lead someone toward what they should say or do:
to show or tell an actor/person the words they should be saying, or actions they should be doing:
to cause or lead to:
to give instructions to an artificial intelligence system:

Origin

The adjective is from Middle English prompte, from Middle French prompt and its etymon Lat

The adjective is from Middle English prompte, from Middle French prompt and its etymon Latin prōmptus (“visible, apparent, evident”), past participle of prōmō (“to take or bring out or forth, produce, bring to light”), from prō (“forth, forward”) + emō (“to take, acquire, buy”). Doublet of pronto.

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Forms

prompts, prompting, prompted, prompted
Base formprompt · to prompt
3rd person singularprompts
Present participleprompting
Past simpleprompted
Past participleprompted

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyprompt
he, she, itprompts

Past simpleLesson

all personsprompted

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave prompted
he, she, ithas prompted

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill prompt

Synonyms

63 synonyms
counselC2adviseA2encourageA2urgeB2recommendB1suggestA2tipB2warnB1provokeC1gooseC1fuelB1sendA2cheerA2drawA1
Close in meaning

Word family

7 related words
Relatedpromptingprompter
Derivedpromptablepromptinglypromptressprompturereprompt

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
promoterpromotionB1promotionalpromptlyB2proneC2prong
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