Word Meanings - REJOINDER - Book Publishers vocabulary database
The defendant's answer to the plaintiff's replication. Syn. -- Reply; ansswer; replication. See Reply. (more info) 1. An answer to a reply; or, in general, an answer or reply.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of REJOINDER)
- Answer
- Reply
- response
- counter-argument
- confutation
- acceptance
- tally
- counterpart
- solution
- vindication
- apology
- exculpation
- defense
- rejoinder
- repartee
- retort
- replication
- Retort
- Rejoinder
- replicable
- reciprocation
- retaliation
- reply
- answer
Possible antonyms: (opposite words of REJOINDER)
Related words: (words related to REJOINDER)
- DISREGARDFULLY
Negligently; heedlessly. - 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; - 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 - 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 - 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. - DEFENSER
Defender. Foxe. - SOLUTION
The act or process by which a body (whether solid, liquid, or gaseous) is absorbed into a liquid, and, remaining or becoming fluid, is diffused throughout the solvent; also, the product reulting from such absorption. Note: When a solvent will not - RECIPROCATION
1. The act of reciprocating; interchange of acts; a mutual giving and returning; as, the reciprocation of kindness. 2. Alternate recurrence or action; as, the reciprocation of the sea in the flow and ebb of tides. Sir T. Browne. - 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. - EXCULPATION
The act of exculpating from alleged fault or crime; that which exculpates; excuse. These robbers, however, were men who might have made out a strong case in exculpation of themselves. Southey. - 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. - RESPONSELESS
Giving no response. - 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; - 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. - 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. - 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. - BRUTALLY
In a brutal manner; cruelly. - FUNDAMENTALLY
Primarily; originally; essentially; radically; at the foundation; in origin or constituents. "Fundamentally defective." Burke.