pronto

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Pronunciation

/ˈpɹɒntəʊ/ (UK)

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/ˈpɹɒntəʊ/ (UK) · [ˈpʰɹɒntʰəʊ̯] (UK) · /ˈpɹɑntoʊ/ (US) · [ˈpʰɹɑntʰoʊ̯] (US) · [ˈpʰɹɑnoʊ̯] (US)

Definition of pronto

2 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

adv

(informal, not-comparable)Quickly, very soon, promptly.

“I need to finish this assignment pronto.”
““[…] I burst through the door with a pregnancy bump and shouted at him, pretending to be his mistress. I’ve never seen a man look so horrified in his life. I then went into a spontaneous lip-sync of ‘I Will Survive’.” (We need footage, pronto.)”

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adv

(informal, not-comparable)Quickly, very soon, promptly.

“I need to finish this assignment pronto.”
““[…] I burst through the door with a pregnancy bump and shouted at him, pretending to be his mistress. I’ve never seen a man look so horrified in his life. I then went into a spontaneous lip-sync of ‘I Will Survive’.” (We need footage, pronto.)”

adj

(informal, rare)Quick, prompt.

“For a pronto lunch, take a slice or two to work and team with a tasty salad.”
“In pronto reaction time, Zeth chose to drive a black armored truck, […]”
“Wow! With a pronto 'Poof' from Funky, Bronto the Brontosaurus appears.”

Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.

Borrowed from Spanish pronto, from Latin prōmptus. Doublet of prompt.

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