imprompt

adj — 2 senses

imprompt

adj

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

1

Not prompt; delayed.

2

Obsolete Not 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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