"promptly" meaning in English

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Adverb

IPA: /ˈpɹɑmptli/ [General-American], /ˈpɹɒmptli/ [Received-Pronunciation] Audio: en-us-promptly.ogg Forms: more promptly [comparative], most promptly [superlative]
Etymology: From prompt + -ly. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|prompt|ly}} prompt + -ly Head templates: {{en-adv}} promptly (comparative more promptly, superlative most promptly)
  1. In a prompt manner.
    Both soon and quickly.
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  2. In a prompt manner.
    Exactly at a specific time.
    Categories (topical): Time
    Sense id: en-promptly-en-adv-1Za27sz0 Disambiguation of Time: 16 84
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: on line, punctually Translations (in a prompt manner): веднага (vednaga) (Bulgarian), незабавно (nezabavno) (Bulgarian), 迅速地 (Chinese Mandarin), 及时的 (Chinese Mandarin), akurate (Esperanto), rapide (Esperanto), pikaisesti (Finnish), ripeästi (Finnish), nopeasti (Finnish), joutuisasti (Finnish), logo (Galician), haladéktalanul (Hungarian), nyomban (Hungarian), rögtön (Hungarian), azonnal (Hungarian), segera (Indonesian), hah (Navajo), haneetehee (Navajo), prompt (Norwegian), prompte (Norwegian), fuaz (Plautdietsch), prontamente (Portuguese), немедленно (nemedlenno) (Russian), незамедлительно (nezamedlitelʹno) (Russian), inmediatamente (Spanish), rápidamente (Spanish), prompt (Swedish), негайно (nehajno) (Ukrainian), швидко (švydko) (Ukrainian), відразу (vidrazu) (Ukrainian)
Disambiguation of 'in a prompt manner': 50 50
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          "ref": "1943 November – 1944 February (date written; published 1945 August 17), George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], Animal Farm […], London: Secker & Warburg, published May 1962, →OCLC:",
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      "sense": "in a prompt manner",
      "word": "segera"
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      "roman": "vidrazu",
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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-11-06 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-10-02 using wiktextract (fbeafe8 and 7f03c9b). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.