Meanings
adjectivepromptive (comparative more promptive, superlative most promptive)
comparative more promptive · superlative most promptive
- Serving as a prompt.
In the promptive message mode, the user provides information in response to a descriptive message.
1985, Patricia W. Hurst, Executive Control Systems in the Engineering Design Environment, (page 37)#1 more example
It is promptive of serious reflection that some of the greatest thinkers of past ages accounted in such a way for the manifestation of Mind in providence.
1892, James Tait, Mind in Matter: A Short Argument on Theism, page 2
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