Word Meanings - REBUTTER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The answer of a defendant in matter of fact to a plaintiff's surrejoinder.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of REBUTTER)

• Rejoinder
• Retort
• replication
• reply
• answer
• rebutter
• parry

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of REBUTTER)

• Ignore
• drop
• pretermit
• pass
• disregard

Related words: (words related to REBUTTER)

• 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
• 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
• 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.
• RETORTION
  Retaliation. Wharton. (more info) 1. Act of retorting or throwing back; reflection or turning back. It was, however, necessary to possess some single term expressive of this intellectual retortion. Sir W. Hamilton.
• DISREGARD
  Not to regard; to pay no heed to; to omit to take notice of; to neglect to observe; to slight as unworthy of regard or notice; as, to disregard the admonitions of conscience. Studious of good, man disregarded fame. Blackmore.
• ANSWERLESS
  Having no answer, or impossible to be answered. Byron.
• ANSWERABLE
  1. Obliged to answer; liable to be called to account; liable to pay, indemnify, or make good; accountable; amenable; responsible; as, an agent is answerable to his principal; to be answerable for a debt, or for damages. Will any man argue that
• REPLYER
  See BACON
• IGNORE
  To throw out or reject as false or ungrounded; -- said of a bill rejected by a grand jury for want of evidence. See Ignoramus. 3. Hence: To refuse to take notice of; to shut the eyes to; not to recognize; to disregard willfully and causelessly;
• DISREGARDFUL
  Neglect; negligent; heedless; regardless.
• DISREGARDER
  One who disregards.
• ANSWERABLY
  In an answerable manner; in due proportion or correspondence; suitably.
• ANSWERER
  One who answers.
• RETORT
  1. To bend or curve back; as, a retorted line. With retorted head, pruned themselves as they floated. Southey. 2. To throw back; to reverberate; to reflect. As when his virtues, shining upon others, Heat them and they retort that heat again To
• ANSWERABLENESS
  The quality of being answerable, liable, responsible, or correspondent.
• 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.
• RETORTER
  One who retorts.
• UNANSWERABLE
  Not answerable; irrefutable; conclusive; decisive; as, he have an unanswerable argument. -- Un*an"swer*a*ble*ness, n. -- Un*an"swer*a*bly, adv.
• PRETORTURE
  To torture beforehand. Fuller.
• SURREJOINDER
  The answer of a plaintiff to a defendant's rejoinder.
• SPARRY
  Resembling spar, or consisting of spar; abounding with spar; having a confused crystalline structure; spathose. Sparry iron , siderite. See Siderite . -- Sparry limestone , a coarsely crystalline marble.