Word Meanings - OVERPROMPT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Too prompt; too ready or eager; precipitate. -- O`ver*prompt"ness, n.

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• PRECIPITATELY
  In a precipitate manner; headlong; hastily; rashly. Swift.
• PROMPT-BOOK
  The book used by a prompter of a theater.
• PROMPTLY
  In a prompt manner.
• READY-MADE
  Made already, or beforehand, in anticipation of need; not made to order; as, ready-made clothing; ready-made jokes.
• PROMPTUARY
  Of or pertaining to preparation. Bacon.
• PROMPT-NOTE
  A memorandum of a sale, and time when payment is due, given to the purchaser at a sale of goods.
• PROMPTNESS
  1. Promptitude; readiness; quickness of decision or action. 2. Cheerful willingness; alacrity.
• PROMPTER
  1. One who, or that which, prompts; one who admonishes or incites to action. 2. One who reminds another, as an actor or an orator, of the words to be spoken next; specifically, one employed for this purpose in a theater.
• EAGERLY
  In an eager manner.
• PROMPT
  L. promptus, properly, brought forth , hence, visible, evident, at hand, ready, quick, -- p. p. of promere to take 1. Ready and quick to act as occasion demands; meeting requirements readily; not slow, dilatory, or hesitating in decision
• PROMPTITUDE
  The quality of being prompt; quickness of decision and action when occasion demands; alacrity; as, promptitude in obedience. Men of action, of promptitude, and of courage. I. Taylor.
• EAGER
  aigre, fr. L. acer sharp, sour, spirited, zealous; akin to Gr. a 1. Sharp; sour; acid. "Like eager droppings into milk." Shak. 2. Sharp; keen; bitter; severe. "A nipping and an eager air." "Eager words." Shak. 3. Excited by desire
• EAGERNESS
  1. The state or quality of being eager; ardent desire. "The eagerness of love." Addison. 2. Tartness; sourness. Syn. -- Ardor; vehemence; earnestness; impetuosity; heartiness; fervor; fervency; avidity; zeal; craving; heat; passion; greediness.
• PROMPTURE
  Suggestion; incitement; prompting. Shak. Coleridge.
• READY-WITTED
  Having ready wit.
• READY
  A word of command, or a position, in the manual of arms, at which the piece is cocked and held in position to execute promptly the next command, which is, aim. All ready, ready in every particular; wholly equipped or prepared. " am all redy at
• PRECIPITATE
  1. Overhasty; rash; as, the king was too precipitate in declaring war. Clarendon. 2. Lacking due deliberation or care; hurried; said or done before the time; as, a precipitate measure. "The rapidity of our too precipitate course." Landor.
• OVERREADY
  Too ready. -- O"ver*read"*i*ly, adv. -- O"ver*read"i*ness, n.
• MEAGERNESS; MEAGRENESS
  The state or quality of being meager; leanness; scantiness; barrenness.
• ALREADY
  Prior to some specified time, either past, present, or future; by this time; previously. "Joseph was in Egypt already." Exod. i. 5. I say unto you, that Elias is come already. Matt. xvii. 12. Note: It has reference to past time, but may be used
• IMPROMPT
  Not ready. Sterne.
• THREADY
  1. Like thread or filaments; slender; as, the thready roots of a shrub. 2. Containing, or consisting of, thread.
• IMPROMPTU
  Offhand; without previous study; extemporaneous; extempore; as, an impromptu verse. (more info) readiness, at hand; in in + promptus visibility, readiness, from
• UNREADY
  1. Not ready or prepared; not prompt; slow; awkward; clumsy. Dryden. Nor need the unready virgin strike her breast. Keble. 2. Not dressed; undressed.
• OVEREAGER
  Too eager; too impatient. -- O`ver*ea"ger*ly, adv. -- O"ver*ea"ger*ness, n.
• MEAGER; MEAGRE
  Dry and harsh to the touch, as chalk. Syn. -- Thin; lean; lank; gaunt; starved; hungry; poor; emaciated; scanty; barren. (more info) 1. Destitue of, or having little, flesh; lean. Meager were his looks; Sharp misery had worn him to the bones. Shak.