Meanings
verbprompose (third-person singular simple present promposes, present participle promposing, simple past and past participle promposed)
present singular third person promposes · participle present promposing · participle past promposed · past promposed
- To ask someone to prom using a promposal.
We have no idea how to compete with that. Which was a real problem when our partner, Hudson’s Bay, asked us to come up with some cool and interesting ways to help students prompose.
2017 November 3, Kat Lourenco, “Six Awesome Ways To Prompose With These Hilarious Puns”, in Student Life Network
Origin
Blend of prom + propose, likely as a back-formation from promposal.
Full word history & related roots →Cite this entry
APA
prompose. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/prompose
MLA
“prompose.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/prompose. Accessed November 2, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “prompose,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/prompose.
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