imprompt

English

Etymology

From im- +‎ prompt.

Adjective

imprompt (comparative more imprompt, superlative most imprompt)

  1. Not prompt; delayed.
  2. (obsolete) Not ready.
    • 1759, Laurence Sterne, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman:
      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!

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “imprompt”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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