1. Persuasion formulated as a suggestion
   - suggestion 
2. A cue given to a performer (usually the beginning of the next line to be spoken)
   "the audience could hear his prompting"
   - prompt

1. Give an incentive for action
   - motivate, actuate, propel, move, incite 
2. Serve as the inciting cause of
   "She prompted me to call my relatives"
   - inspire, instigate 
3. Assist (somebody acting or reciting) by suggesting the next words of something forgotten or imperfectly learned
   - remind, cue

Derived forms: promptings

See also: prompter

Type of: cause, cue, do, get, have, induce, inform, make, persuasion, stimulate, suasion

Encyclopedia: Prompt

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