| 单词 | promptness |
| 释义 | promptness (once / 3603 pages) n WORD FAMILY prompt: prompted, prompter, promptest, prompting, promptingly, promptly, promptness, prompts+/prompted: unprompted/prompter: prompters/prompting: promptings USAGE EXAMPLESIn his brief speech on Sunday, Mr. Gentiloni said that he would work to clarify Italy’s new electoral rules “with the necessary promptness.” New York Times(Dec 11, 2016) Impressive bandwidth is useful, but promptness also matters. Nature(Aug 09, 2016) That’s three times the figure for the oncology division, which is hardly known for promptness, and neurology’s workload is below average for the agency. Wall Street Journal(Aug 09, 2016) 1n the quality or habit of adhering to an appointed time Syn|Ant|Hyper punctuality tardiness the quality or habit of not adhering to a correct or usual or expected time timing the time when something happens 2n the characteristic of doing things without delay Syn|Hyper promptitude celerity, quickness, rapidity, rapidness, speediness a rate that is rapid |
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