Word Meanings - REPLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database
To answer a defendant's plea. 3. Figuratively, to do something in return for something done; as, to reply to a signal; to reply to the fire of a battery. Syn. -- To answer; respond; rejoin. (more info) replicare to fold back, make a reply; pref.
Additional info about word: REPLY
To answer a defendant's plea. 3. Figuratively, to do something in return for something done; as, to reply to a signal; to reply to the fire of a battery. Syn. -- To answer; respond; rejoin. (more info) replicare to fold back, make a reply; pref. re- re- + plicare to 1. To make a return in words or writing; to respond; to answer. O man, who art thou that repliest against God Rom. ix. 20.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of REPLY)
- Answer
- Reply
- response
- counter-argument
- confutation
- acceptance
- tally
- counterpart
- solution
- vindication
- apology
- exculpation
- defense
- rejoinder
- repartee
- retort
- Rejoinder
- Retort
- replication
- reply
- answer
- rebutter
- parry
- Respond
- rejoin
- correspond
- accord
- meet
- suit
- replicable
- reciprocation
- retaliation
Possible antonyms: (opposite words of REPLY)
Related words: (words related to REPLY)
- DISREGARDFULLY
Negligently; heedlessly. - PARRY
1. To ward off; to stop, or to turn aside; as, to parry a thrust, a blow, or anything that means or threatens harm. Locke. Vice parries wide The undreaded volley with a sword of straw. Cowper. 2. To avoid; to shift or put off; to evade. The French - APOLOGY
1. Something said or written in defense or justification of what appears to others wrong, or of what may be liable to disapprobation; justification; as, Tertullian's Apology for Christianity. It is not my intention to make an apology for my poem; - RESPOND
1. To say somethin in return; to answer; to reply; as, to respond to a question or an argument. 2. To show some effect in return to a force; to act in response; to accord; to correspond; to suit. A new affliction strings a new cord in the heart, - TALLYHO
1. The huntsman's cry to incite or urge on his hounds. 2. A tallyho coach. Tallyho coach, a pleasure coach. See under Coach. - COUNTERPART
One of two corresponding copies of an instrument; a duplicate. 3. A person who closely resembles another. 4. A thing may be applied to another thing so as to fit perfectly, as a seal to its impression; hence, a thing which is adapted to another - ACCORDANCY
Accordance. Paley. - CORRESPOND
1. To be like something else in the dimensions and arrangement of its parts; -- followed by with or to; as, concurring figures correspond with each other throughout. None of them correspond to the Shakespearean type. J. A. Symonds. - CORRESPONDENCE SCHOOL
A school that teaches by correspondence, the instruction being based on printed instruction sheets and the recitation papers written by the student in answer to the questions or requirements of these sheets. In the broadest sense of the - ACCORDANTLY
In accordance or agreement; agreeably; conformably; -- followed by with or to. - ACCORDER
One who accords, assents, or concedes. - ANSWER
1. To speak in defense against; to reply to in defense; as, to answer a charge; to answer an accusation. 2. To speak or write in return to, as in return to a call or question, or to a speech, declaration, argument, or the like; to reply to ; to - ACCORDINGLY
1. Agreeably; correspondingly; suitably; in a manner conformable. Behold, and so proceed accordingly. Shak. 2. In natural sequence; consequently; so. Syn. -- Consequently; therefore; wherefore; hence; so. -- Accordingly, Consequently, indicate - CORRESPONDINGLY
In a corresponding manner; conformably. - ACCORDING
Agreeing; in agreement or harmony; harmonious. "This according voice of national wisdom." Burke. "Mind and soul according well." Tennyson. According to him, every person was to be bought. Macaulay. Our zeal should be according to knowledge. Sprat. - REPLY
To answer a defendant's plea. 3. Figuratively, to do something in return for something done; as, to reply to a signal; to reply to the fire of a battery. Syn. -- To answer; respond; rejoin. (more info) replicare to fold back, make a reply; pref. - VINDICATION
The claiming a thing as one's own; the asserting of a right or title in, or to, a thing. Burrill. (more info) 1. The act of vindicating, or the state of being vindicated; defense; justification against denial or censure; as, the vindication of - RETORTIVE
Containing retort. - REPLICATION
The reply of the plaintiff, in matters of fact, to the defendant's plea. 3. Return or repercussion, as of sound; echo. To hear the replication of your sounds. Shak. 4. A repetition; a copy. Farrar. Syn. -- Answer; response; reply; rejoinder. (more - PRETERMIT
To pass by; to omit; to disregard. Bacon. - MONSEL'S SOLUTION
An aqueous solution of Monsel's salt, having valuable styptic properties. - ACCIDENTALLY
In an accidental manner; unexpectedly; by chance; unintentionally; casually; fortuitously; not essentially. - INCORRESPONDENCE; INCORRESPONDENCY
Want of correspondence; disagreement; disproportion. - NONSOLUTION
Failure of solution or explanation. - ALIMENTALLY
So as to serve for nourishment or food; nourishing quality. Sir T. Browne. - HORIZONTALLY
In a horizontal direction or position; on a level; as, moving horizontally. - RESOLUTIONER
One who makes a resolution; one who joins with others in a declaration or resolution; specifically, one of a party in the Scottish Church in the 17th century. He was sequestrated afterwards as a Resolutioner. Sir W. Scott. - SENTIMENTALLY
In a sentimental manner. - TEETOTALLY
Entirely; totally. - SACRAMENTALLY
In a sacrament manner.