Word Meanings - RETORT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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

Additional info about word: 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 the first giver. Shak. 3. To return, as an argument, accusation, censure, or incivility; as, to retort the charge of vanity. And with retorted scorn his back he turned. Milton.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of RETORT)

• Answer
• Reply
• response
• counter-argument
• confutation
• acceptance
• tally
• counterpart
• solution
• vindication
• apology
• exculpation
• defense
• rejoinder
• repartee
• retort
• Rebut
• Meet
• annul
• confute
• Recrimination
• Retort
• counter-imputation
• countercharge
• counteraccusation
• Rejoinder
• replication
• reply
• answer
• rebutter
• parry
• Retaliate
• Avenge
• repay
• requite

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of RETORT)

• Ignore
• drop
• pretermit
• pass
• disregard

Related words: (words related to RETORT)

• DISREGARDFULLY
  Negligently; heedlessly.
• REPAYMENT
  1. The act of repaying; reimbursement. Jer. Taylor. 2. The money or other thing repaid.
• 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;
• 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.
• ANNUL
  1. To reduce to nothing; to obliterate. Light, the prime work of God, to me's extinct. And all her various objects of delight Annulled. Milton. 2. To make void or of no effect; to nullify; to abolish; to do away with; -- used appropriately of laws,
• ANNULARITY
  Annular condition or form; as, the annularity of a nebula. J. Rogers.
• AVENGERESS
  A female avenger. Spenser.
• 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
• ANNULOID
  Of or pertaining to the Annuloida.
• 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
• 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.
• RECRIMINATION
  The act of recriminating; an accusation brought by the accused against the accuser; a counter accusation. Accusations and recriminations passed back ward and forward between the contending parties. Macaulay.
• 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
• RETALIATE
  To return the like for; to repay or requite by an act of the One ambassador sent word to the duke's son that his visit should be retaliated. Sir T. Herbert. It is unlucky to be obliged to retaliate the injuries of authors, whose works are so soon
• PRETERMIT
  To pass by; to omit; to disregard. Bacon.
• DEFENSER
  Defender. Foxe.
• ANNULLER
  One who annuls.
• 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.
• DISANNULLER
  One who disannuls.
• 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.
• SEMIANNULAR
  Having the figure of a half circle; forming a semicircle. Grew.
• SENTIMENTALLY
  In a sentimental manner.
• TEETOTALLY
  Entirely; totally.
• SACRAMENTALLY
  In a sacrament manner.