Meanings
adjectiveimprompt (comparative more imprompt, superlative most imprompt)
comparative more imprompt · superlative most imprompt
- obsoleteNot ready.
Nothing, I think, in nature, can be supposed more terrible, than such a Rencounter,--so imprompt! so ill prepared to stand the shock of it as Dr. Slop was!
1759, Laurence Sterne, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
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Origin
- Latinimprōmptus
- Englishimprompt
From Latin imprōmptus. By surface analysis, im- + prompt.
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imprompt. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/imprompt
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