| 单词 | promptly |
| 释义 | promptly (once / 241 pages) adv To do something promptly is to do it right away or in a timely fashion, avoiding any delays. When you receive an invitation, you might immediately check your calendar and promptly reply. Doing things promptly is the opposite of procrastinating or putting things off. Showing up promptly for meetings, dates, and other plans is courteous and polite. When the President responds promptly to a crisis, it's considered good leadership. If you delay too much, you lost the chance to do something promptly — this is a word for things that happen fast. WORD FAMILYprompt: prompted, prompter, promptest, prompting, promptingly, promptly, promptness, prompts+/prompted: unprompted/prompter: prompters/prompting: promptings USAGE EXAMPLESIt was amid that heated and ugly rhetoric that the center announced its expansion plans — and promptly ran into a wall of opposition. Washington Post(Jan 02, 2017) The two promptly put all their possessions in a storage unit and moved into a Texas apartment with the barest of essentials. Washington Times(Jan 01, 2017) For instance, if there is a rap musical written about a Founding Father, it will close promptly after three days to no fanfare at all. Washington Post(Dec 30, 2016) 1adv with little or no delay the rescue squad arrived promptly Syn quick, quickly 2adv at once (usually modifies an undesirable occurrence) he promptly forgot the address Syn right away 3adv in a punctual manner he did his homework promptly Syn pronto, readily |
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