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What is the adjective for punctual?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verb punctuate which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

punctual
  1. prompt or on time
    1. (of an event) Happening at the appointed time
    2. (of a person) Acting at the appointed time
  2. (mathematics) Existing as a point or series of points
  3. (linguistics) Expressing momentary action that has no duration
  4. (nonstandard, Euro-English) Periodic; occasional.
  5. Synonyms:
  6. Examples:
    1. “I had some dealings with him, and to my amazement, he never agreed to a discount and was always punctual in meeting delivery deadlines.”
      “You should also be punctual and have genned up on the organisation you are being interviewed for.”
      “Martin is not the greatest of administrators, and he isn't punctual, but he doesn't bother about things like that.”
punctuational
  1. Pertaining to punctuation. [from 19th c.]
  2. (biology) Pertaining to punctuationism; taking place very rapidly, especially within a single generation or in a series of rapid steps. [from 20th c.]
  3. Examples:
    1. “Letters display the kind of orthographical and punctuational errors that one is supposed to have left behind by the tenth grade.”
      “Of course, neither school specifically sets out to accept or reject gradualistic or punctuational change but they do emphasise different extremes of patterns of evolution.”
      “How private worry about hyphens or apostrophes will so often turn a person into a punctuational avenging marauder, a ruthless grammatical Genghis Khan.”
punctuative
  1. Suggesting or pertaining to punctuation.
  2. Examples:
    1. “After about 20 seconds, he ended his performance with a punctuative smack of the taut drum heads.”
punctuall
  1. Obsolete form of punctual.
punctuationless
  1. Without punctuation.
punctuated
punctuating
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