What is another word for prompting?

Pronunciation: [pɹˈɒmptɪŋ] (IPA)

Prompting, as a word, means to encourage or incite someone to take an action or to say something. It is often used in situations where one person is prompting another person to remember or verbalize something. There are several synonyms for the word prompting such as urging, prodding, coaxing, motivating, inspiring, spurring, stimulating, instigating, and persuading. Each of these synonyms carries different connotations, and a particular word may be more appropriate depending on the context of the situation. However, all these synonyms signify the idea of someone or something making another person act or speak in a particular way.

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Usage examples for Prompting

It stands in the world for ever as the grand incentive to goodness, prompting men and inspiring them to sympathy and imitation.
"The Expositor's Bible: The Gospel of St. John, Vol. I"
Marcus Dods
I had missed the first response, and he was prompting me.
"I Walked in Arden"
Jack Crawford
Dr. Chapman's proposition was accepted; and although Marian suffered keenly from the wrench of parting with her friends, the prompting to work out her powers to the full overcame the clinging of affection, and in the spring of 1851 she left Rosehill behind her and came to London.
"George Eliot"
Mathilde Blind

Famous quotes with Prompting

  • Researches tested a new form of medical marijuana that treats pain but doesn't get the user high, prompting patients who need medical marijuana to declare, "Thank you?"
    Jimmy Fallon
  • I hope to God that the inner strength that will vindicate my deeds will in good time spring forth from my own people. I have done as I had to on the prompting of my inner voice.
    Kurt Huber
  • The beginning of a plot is the prompting of desire.
    Christopher Lehmann-Haupt
  • Messages are everywhere if we choose to see them, prompting us & guiding us to our next steps.
    June Saruwatari
  • Words have a magical power. They can bring either the greatest happiness or deepest despair; they can transfer knowledge from teacher to student; words enable the orator to sway his audience and dictate its decisions. Words are capable of arousing the strongest emotions and prompting all men's actions.
    Sigmund Freud

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