promptly

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English

Etymology

prompt +‎ -ly

Pronunciation

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Hyphenation: prompt‧ly
Audio (US): (file)

Adverb

promptly (comparative more promptly, superlative most promptly)

In prompt manner; both soon and quickly.
- 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:
  
  […] the ducklings nestled down inside it and promptly fell asleep.

Synonyms

on line; see also Thesaurus:punctually

Translations

in a prompt manner

Bulgarian: веднага (bg) (vednaga), незабавно (bg) (nezabavno)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 迅速地, 及时的
Esperanto: akurate, rapide (eo)
Finnish: pikaisesti (fi), ripeästi (fi), nopeasti (fi), joutuisasti (fi)
Galician: logo
Hungarian: haladéktalanul (hu), nyomban (hu), rögtön (hu), azonnal (hu)
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Indonesian: segera (id)
Navajo: hah, haneetehee
Norwegian: prompt (no), prompte
Plautdietsch: fuaz
Portuguese: prontamente (pt)
Russian: немедленно (ru) (nemedlenno), незамедлительно (ru) (nezamedlitelʹno)
Spanish: inmediatamente (es), rápidamente (es)

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