Imprompt

adj

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Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Not prompt; delayed.
  2. 2
    Not ready. obsolete

    "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!"

Synonyms

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delayed

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"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!"

Etymology

From Latin imprōmptus. By surface analysis, im- + prompt.

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