Reverse Dictionary: PROMPT

ADJECTIVES
► GAINSOME ready, prompt → 1626 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
► HIEFUL speedy, hasty, hurried, quick, prompt → 1225 obs.
► HOTFOOT swift, speedy; acting with haste or promptness → 1582
► RAD quick, hasty, speedy; active, prompt, ready, dexterous; eager, elated → 700 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
► RATHE quick in action, speedy, prompt; eager, earnest, vehement → 900 Eng. dial. & poetic
► SPACK of a person: quick, prompt, ready → 1200 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
► SUDDEN 1. performed or taking place without delay; speedy; prompt, immediate → 1375 obs.
2. of persons: swift in action, quick to perform, prompt, expeditious → 1591 obs.
► TALL quick, prompt, ready, active → 1530 obs.
► YEVER eager, quick, prompt → 1400 obs. exc. Sc.

ADVERBS
► AT THE DROP OF A HAT promptly, without hesitation → 1854 colloq.
► IN A FLEA’S LEAP in next to no time; promptly, immediately → 19C 
► LIKE SHIT OFF A SHOVEL extremely fast, swift, prompt → 1998 UK sl.
► ON THE NAIL promptly; straightaway; immediately → 1596 
► PRESTLY readily; quickly; promptly, immediately → 1340 obs.
► RADLY quickly, promptly, without delay, soon  → 888 obs.
► RATHE denoting rapidity in the performance or completion of an action; quickly, rapidly, swiftly, esp. without delay, promptly, soon → 825 obs.
► SUDDENLY without delay, forthwith, promptly, immediately, directly, at once → 1330 obs.
► TIGHTLY promptly, quickly; actively, smartly → 1873 Sc.
► WITH A SISERARY with a vengeance; suddenly, promptly → 1607 obs.
► WITH A WET FINGER readily, without hesitation, promptly → 1583 obs.
► YARE quickly, without delay, promptly, immediately, soon → 1250 obs.
► YARELY quickly, promptly, nimbly, briskly, diligently, eagerly → 900 arch.
► YEPLY quickly, briskly; promptly, without delay → 1300 obs.

NOUNS
► PRICK something which serves as a stimulus, prompt, or incitement; an incentive → a1387 obs.
► PRICKLE an urging or prompting → a1000 obs.
► SUGGESTION prompting or incitement to evil; an instance of this, a temptation of the evil one → 1340 obs.

NOUNS – PERSON
► CHARLIE-ON-THE-SPOT a reliable, prompt, or punctual person → 1835 Amer. dial.

VERBS
► HEARKEN IN to prompt secretly → 1902 Sc. (Bk.)
► SUGGER to prompt, to suggest → 1502 obs.
► TAKE TIME BY THE TOP to seize one’s opportunity, to act promptly → 1926 obs. (Bk.)
► TICKLE to stir up, to incite, to provoke; to prompt or impel to do something → 1532 obs.