Synonyms of the word

prompt

• adj. (archaic) Ready, willing (to act).
• adj. Quick, acting without delay.
• adj. On time, punctual.
• n. A reminder or cue.
• n. (business, dated) A time limit given for payment of an account for produce purchased, this limit varying…
• n. (computing) A symbol that appears on a monitor to indicate that the computer is ready to receive input.
• n. (writing) A suggestion for inspiration given to an author.
• v. (transitive) To lead (someone) toward what they should say or do.
• v. (transitive, theater and television) To show or tell an actor/person the words they should be saying,…
• v. (transitive) To initiate; to cause or lead to.

actuate

• v. (transitive) To activate, or to put into motion; to animate.
• v. (transitive) To incite to action; to motivate.

cause

• n. (countable, often with of, typically of adverse results) The source of, or reason for, an event or action;…
• n. (uncountable, especially with for and a bare noun) Sufficient reason for a state, as of emotion.
• n. (countable) A goal, aim or principle, especially one which transcends purely selfish ends.
• n. (obsolete) Sake; interest; advantage.
• n. (countable, obsolete) Any subject of discussion or debate; a matter; an affair.
• n. (countable, law) A suit or action in court; any legal process by which a party endeavors to obtain his…
• v. To set off an event or action.
• v. To actively produce as a result, by means of force or authority.
• v. To assign or show cause; to give a reason; to make excuse.

cue

• n. An action or event that is a signal for somebody to do something.
• n. The last words of a play actor's speech, serving as an intimation for the next actor to speak; any word…
• n. A hint or intimation.
• n. (obsolete) Humour; temper of mind.
• n. The name of the Latin-script letter Q/q.
• n. (obsolete, Britain, universities) A small portion of bread or beer; the quantity bought with a farthing…
• v. To give someone a cue signal.
• v. (by extension) To spark or provoke.
• n. (sports, billiards, snooker, pool) A straight tapering stick used to hit the balls in various games.
• n. (obsolete) The tail; the end of a thing; especially, a tail-like twist of hair worn at the back of the…
• v. (sports, billiards, snooker, pool) To take aim on the cue ball with the cue and hit it.
• v. To form into a cue; to braid; to twist.

do

• v. (auxiliary) A syntactic marker.
• v. (transitive) To perform; to execute.
• v. (obsolete) To cause, make (someone) (do something).
• v. (intransitive, transitive) To suffice.
• v. (intransitive) To be reasonable or acceptable.
• v. (transitive) To have (as an effect).
• v. (intransitive) To fare; to succeed or fail.
• v. (transitive, chiefly in questions) To have as one's job.
• v. To perform the tasks or actions associated with (something).
• v. To cook.
• v. (transitive) To travel in, to tour, to make a circuit of.
• v. (transitive) To treat in a certain way.
• v. (transitive) To work for or on, by way of caring for, looking after, preparing, cleaning, keeping in order,…
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To act or behave in a certain manner; to conduct oneself.
• v. (transitive) (see also do time) To spend (time) in jail.
• v. (transitive) To impersonate or depict.
• v. (transitive, slang) To kill.
• v. (transitive, slang) To deal with for good and all; to finish up; to undo; to ruin; to do for.
• v. (informal) To punish for a misdemeanor.
• v. (transitive, slang) To have sex with. (See also do it).
• v. (transitive) To cheat or swindle.
• v. (transitive) To convert into a certain form; especially, to translate.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To finish.
• v. (Britain, dated, intransitive) To work as a domestic servant (with for).
• v. (archaic, dialectal, transitive, auxiliary) Used to form the present progressive of verbs.
• v. (stock exchange) To cash or to advance money for, as a bill or note.
• v. (informal, transitive) To make or provide.
• v. (informal, transitive) To injure (one's own body part).
• v. (transitive) To take drugs.
• v. (idomatic, transitive, in the form be doing [somewhere]) to have a purpose or reason.
• n. (colloquial) A party, celebration, social function.
• n. (informal) A hairdo.
• n. (colloquial, obsolete) A period of confusion or argument.
• n. Something that can or should be done (usually in the phrase dos and don'ts).
• n. (obsolete) A deed; an act.
• n. (archaic) ado; bustle; stir; to-do.
• n. (obsolete, Britain, slang) A cheat; a swindler.
• n. (music) A syllable used in solfège to represent the first and eighth tonic of a major scale.
• adv. (rare) Abbreviation of ditto.

efficient

• adj. Making good, thorough, or careful use of resources; not consuming extra. Especially, making good use of…
• adj. Expressing the proportion of consumed energy that was successfully used in a process; the ratio of useful…
• adj. Causing effects, producing results; bringing into being; initiating change. (Rare except in philosophical…
• adj. (proscribed, old use) Effective.

expeditious

• adj. Fast, prompt, speedy.
• adj. (of a process or thing) Completed or done with efficiency and speed; facilitating speed.

fast

• adj. (dated) Firmly or securely fixed in place; stable.
• adj. Firm against attack; fortified by nature or art; impregnable; strong.
• adj. (of people) Steadfast, with unwavering feeling. (Now only in set phrases like "fast friend".).
• adj. Moving with great speed, or capable of doing so; swift, rapid.
• adj. Causing unusual rapidity of play or action.
• adj. (computing, of a piece of hardware) Able to transfer data in a short period of time.
• adj. Deep or sound (of sleep); fast asleep (of people).
• adj. (of dyes or colours) Not running or fading when subjected to detrimental conditions such as wetness or…
• adj. (obsolete) Tenacious; retentive.
• adj. (colloquial) Having an extravagant lifestyle or immoral habits.
• adj. Ahead of the correct time or schedule.
• adj. (of photographic film) More sensitive to light than average.
• adv. In a firm or secure manner, securely; in such a way as not to be moved.
• adv. (of sleeping) Deeply or soundly.
• adv. Immediately following in place or time; close, very near.
• adv. Quickly, with great speed; within a short time.
• adv. Ahead of the correct time or schedule.
• n. (Britain, rail transport) A train that calls at only some stations it passes between its origin and destination,…
• interj. (archery) Short for "stand fast", a warning not to pass between the arrow and the target.
• v. (intransitive) To restrict one’s personal consumption, generally of food, but sometimes other things,…
• n. The act or practice of abstaining from food or of eating very little food.
• n. The period of time during which one abstains from or eats very little food.

get

• v. (transitive) To obtain; to acquire.
• v. (transitive) To receive.
• v. (transitive, in a perfect construction, with present-tense meaning) To have. See usage notes.
• v. (copulative) To become.
• v. (transitive) To cause to become; to bring about.
• v. (transitive) To fetch, bring, take.
• v. (transitive) To cause to do.
• v. (intransitive, with various prepositions, such as into, over, or behind; for specific idiomatic senses…
• v. (transitive) To cover (a certain distance) while travelling.
• v. (transitive) To cause to come or go or move.
• v. (transitive) To cause to be in a certain status or position.
• v. (intransitive) To begin (doing something).
• v. (transitive) To take or catch (a scheduled transportation service).
• v. (transitive) To respond to (a telephone call, a doorbell, etc).
• v. (intransitive, followed by infinitive) To be able, permitted (to do something); to have the opportunity…
• v. (transitive, informal) To understand. (compare get it).
• v. (transitive, informal) To be subjected to.
• v. (informal) To be. Used to form the passive of verbs.
• v. (transitive) To become ill with or catch (a disease).
• v. (transitive, informal) To catch out, trick successfully.
• v. (transitive, informal) To perplex, stump.
• v. (transitive) To find as an answer.
• v. (transitive, informal) To bring to reckoning; to catch (as a criminal); to effect retribution.
• v. (transitive) To hear completely; catch.
• v. (transitive) To getter.
• v. (now rare) To beget (of a father).
• v. (archaic) To learn; to commit to memory; to memorize; sometimes with out.
• v. (imperative, informal) Used with a personal pronoun to indicate that someone is being pretentious or grandiose.
• v. (imperative, informal) Go away; get lost.
• v. (euphemistic) To kill.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To make acquisitions; to gain; to profit.
• n. Offspring.
• n. Lineage.
• n. (sports, tennis) A difficult return or block of a shot.
• n. Something gained.
• n. (Britain, regional) A git.
• n. (Judaism) A Jewish writ of divorce.

have

• v. (transitive) To possess, own, hold.
• v. (transitive) To be related in some way to (with the object identifying the relationship).
• v. (transitive) To partake of a particular substance (especially a food or drink) or action.
• v. (auxiliary verb, taking a past participle) Used in forming the perfect aspect and the past perfect aspect.
• v. (auxiliary verb, taking a to-infinitive) must.
• v. (transitive) To give birth to.
• v. (transitive) To engage in sexual intercourse with.
• v. (transitive) To accept as a romantic partner.
• v. (transitive with bare infinitive) To cause to, by a command, request or invitation.
• v. (transitive with adjective or adjective-phrase complement) To cause to be.
• v. (transitive with bare infinitive) To be affected by an occurrence. (Used in supplying a topic that is…
• v. (transitive with adjective or adjective-phrase complement) To depict as being.
• v. Used as interrogative auxiliary verb with a following pronoun to form tag questions. (For further discussion,…
• v. (Britain, slang) To defeat in a fight; take.
• v. (Ireland) To be able to speak a language.
• v. To feel or be (especially painfully) aware of.
• v. To be afflicted with, to suffer from, to experience something negative.
• v. To trick, to deceive.
• v. (transitive, often with present participle) To allow.
• v. (transitive) To host someone.

immediate

• adj. Happening right away, instantly, with no delay.
• adj. Very close; direct or adjacent.
• adj. Manifestly true; requiring no argument.
• adj. (computer science, of an instruction operand) embedded as part of the instruction itself, rather than…
• adj. (procedure word, military) To denote that a transmission is urgent.
• adj. (procedure word, military) An artillery fire mission modifier for to types of fire mission to denote an…

incite

• v. To rouse, stir up or excite.

induce

• v. (transitive) To lead by persuasion or influence; incite.
• v. (transitive) To cause, bring about, lead to.
• v. (physics) To cause or produce (electric current or a magnetic state) by a physical process of induction.
• v. (transitive, logic) To infer by induction.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To lead in, bring in, introduce.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To draw on, place upon.

inform

• v. (archaic, transitive) To instruct, train (usually in matters of knowledge).
• v. (transitive) To communicate knowledge to.
• v. (intransitive) To impart information or knowledge.
• v. To act as an informer; denounce.
• v. (transitive) To give form or character to; to inspire (with a given quality); to affect, influence (with…
• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To make known, wisely and/or knowledgeably.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To direct, guide.
• v. (archaic, intransitive) To take form; to become visible or manifest; to appear.
• adj. Without regular form; shapeless; ugly; deformed.

inspire

• v. (transitive) To infuse into the mind; to communicate to the spirit; to convey, as by a divine or supernatural…
• v. (transitive) To infuse into; to affect, as with a superior or supernatural influence; to fill with what…
• v. (intransitive) To draw in by the operation of breathing; to inhale.
• v. To infuse by breathing, or as if by breathing.
• v. (archaic, transitive) To breathe into; to fill with the breath; to animate.
• v. (transitive) To spread rumour indirectly.

instigate

• v. To goad or urge forward; to set on; to provoke; to incite.

make

• v. (transitive, heading) To create.
• v. (intransitive, now mostly colloquial) To behave, to act.
• v. (intransitive) To tend; to contribute; to have effect; with for or against.
• v. To constitute.
• v. (intransitive, construed with of, typically interrogative) To interpret.
• v. (transitive, usually stressed) To bring into success.
• v. (transitive, second object is an adjective or participle) To cause to be.
• v. To cause to appear to be; to represent as.
• v. (transitive, second object is a verb) To cause (to do something); to compel (to do something).
• v. (transitive, second object is a verb, can be stressed for emphasis or clarity) To force to do.
• v. (transitive, of a fact) To indicate or suggest to be.
• v. (transitive, of a bed) To cover neatly with bedclothes.
• v. (transitive, US slang) To recognise, identify.
• v. (transitive, colloquial) To arrive at a destination, usually at or by a certain time.
• v. (intransitive, colloquial) To proceed (in a direction).
• v. (transitive) To cover (a given distance) by travelling.
• v. (transitive) To move at (a speed).
• v. To appoint; to name.
• v. (transitive, slang) To induct into the Mafia or a similar organization (as a made man).
• v. (intransitive, colloquial, euphemistic) To defecate or urinate.
• v. (transitive) To earn, to gain (money, points, membership or status).
• v. (transitive) To pay, to cover (an expense); chiefly used after expressions of inability.
• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To compose verses; to write poetry; to versify.
• v. To enact; to establish.
• v. To develop into; to prove to be.
• v. To form or formulate in the mind.
• v. (obsolete) To act in a certain manner; to have to do; to manage; to interfere; to be active; often in…
• v. (obsolete) To increase; to augment; to accrue.
• v. (obsolete) To be engaged or concerned in.
• v. (now archaic) To cause to be (in a specified place), used after a subjective what.
• v. (transitive, euphemistic) To take the virginity of.
• n. (often of a car) Brand or kind; often paired with model.
• n. How a thing is made; construction.
• n. Origin of a manufactured article; manufacture.
• n. (uncountable) Quantity produced, especially of materials.
• n. (dated) The act or process of making something, especially in industrial manufacturing.
• n. A person's character or disposition.
• n. (bridge) The declaration of the trump for a hand.
• n. (physics) The closing of an electrical circuit.
• n. (computing) A software utility for automatically building large applications, or an implementation of…
• n. (slang) Recognition or identification, especially from police records or evidence.
• n. (slang, usually in phrase "easy make") Past or future target of seduction (usually female).
• n. (slang, military) A promotion.
• n. A home-made project.
• n. (basketball) A made basket.
• n. (dialectal) Mate; a spouse or companion.
• n. (Scotland, Ireland, Northern England, now rare) A halfpenny.

motivate

• v. (transitive) To provide someone with an incentive to do something; to encourage.
• v. (transitive) To animate; to propel; to cause to take action.

move

• v. (intransitive) To change place or posture; to stir; to go, in any manner, from one place or position to…
• v. (intransitive) To act; to take action; to stir; to begin to act.
• v. (intransitive) To change residence, for example from one house, town, or state, to another; to go and…
• v. (intransitive, chess, and other games) To change the place of a piece in accordance with the rules of…
• v. (transitive, ergative) To cause to change place or posture in any manner; to set in motion; to carry,…
• v. (transitive, chess) To transfer (a piece or man) from one space or position to another, according to the…
• v. (transitive) To excite to action by the presentation of motives; to rouse by representation, persuasion,…
• v. (transitive) To arouse the feelings or passions of; especially, to excite to tenderness or compassion,…
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To propose; to recommend; specifically, to propose formally for consideration…
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To mention; to raise (a question); to suggest (a course of action); to lodge (a…
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To incite, urge (someone to do something); to solicit (someone for or of an issue);…
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To apply to, as for aid.
• v. (law, transitive, intransitive) To request an action from the court.
• n. The act of moving; a movement.
• n. An act for the attainment of an object; a step in the execution of a plan or purpose.
• n. A formalized or practiced action used in athletics, dance, physical exercise, self-defense, hand-to-hand…
• n. The event of changing one's residence.
• n. A change in strategy.
• n. A transfer, a change from one employer to another.
• n. (board games) The act of moving a token on a gameboard from one position to another according to the rules…

prompting

• v. present participle of prompt.
• n. The action of saying something to persuade, encourage, or remind someone to do or say something.

propel

• v. To cause to move in a certain direction.
• v. To make to arrive to a certain situation or result.

punctual

• adj. prompt or on time.
• adj. (mathematics) Existing as a point or series of points.
• adj. (linguistics) Expressing momentary action that has no duration.
• adj. (nonstandard, Euro-English) Periodic; occasional.

quick

• adj. Moving with speed, rapidity or swiftness, or capable of doing so; rapid; fast.
• adj. Occurring in a short time; happening or done rapidly.
• adj. Lively, fast-thinking, witty, intelligent.
• adj. Mentally agile, alert, perceptive.
• adj. Of temper: easily aroused to anger; quick-tempered.
• adj. (archaic) Alive, living.
• adj. (archaic) Pregnant, especially at the stage where the foetus's movements can be felt; figuratively, alive…
• adj. Of water: flowing.
• adj. Burning, flammable, fiery.
• adj. Fresh; bracing; sharp; keen.
• adj. (mining, of a vein of ore) productive; not "dead" or barren.
• adv. quickly.
• adv. (colloquial) with speed.
• n. raw or sensitive flesh, especially that underneath finger and toe nails.
• n. plants used in making a quickset hedge.
• n. The life; the mortal point; a vital part; a part susceptible to serious injury or keen feeling.
• n. quitchgrass.
• n. (cricket) A fast bowler.
• v. (transitive) To amalgamate surfaces prior to gilding or silvering by dipping them into a solution of mercury…
• v. (transitive, archaic, poetic) To quicken.

ready

• adj. Prepared for immediate action or use.
• adj. Inclined; apt to happen.
• adj. Liable at any moment.
• adj. Not slow or hesitating; quick in action or perception of any kind; dexterous; prompt; easy; expert.
• adj. Offering itself at once; at hand; opportune; convenient.
• v. To make prepared for action.
• n. (slang) ready money; cash.

remind

• v. To cause one to experience a memory (of someone or something); to bring to the notice or consideration…

stimulate

• v. To encourage into action.
• v. To arouse an organism to functional activity.

straightaway

• n. A straight section of a racetrack.
• adv. At once; immediately.
• adj. extending into the distance in a straight line.

timesaving

• adj. that saves time, especially by using a shorter route or a more efficient method.
• adj. prompt or expeditious.