Synonyms for REPLY
rɪˈplaɪre·p·ly

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1. replyverb

   Synonyms:
   follow up, comeback, get back to, answer back, respond, revert, counter, retort, react, answer, rejoin, reaction, riposte, return, rejoinder, response, account

2. replyverb

   To give a written or spoken response, especially to a question, request, accusation or criticism; to answer.

   Synonyms:
   counter, return, react, get back to, answer, answer back, respond, rejoin, revert, follow up, retort, response, reaction, account, comeback, rejoinder, riposte

3. replyverb

   Something given in reply.

   Johnabella replied to Partario's insult with a slap to his face.

   Synonyms:
   answer, retort, answer back, rejoinder, get back to, revert, rejoin, counter, respond, return, follow up, react, account, response, comeback, riposte, reaction

4. replyverb

   To repeat something back; to echo.

   Synonyms:
   react, counter, answer, retort, get back to, return, rejoin, follow up, answer back, respond, revert

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:3.5 / 2 votes

1. reply

   A verbal answer is a return of words to something that seems to call for them, and is made to a charge as well as to a question; an answer may be even made to an unspoken implication or manifestation; see Luke v, 22. In a wider sense, anything said or done in return for some word, action, or suggestion of another may be called an answer. The blow of an enraged man, the whinny of a horse, the howling of the wind, the movement of a bolt in a lock, an echo, etc., may each be an answer to some word or movement. A reply is an unfolding, and ordinarily implies thought and intelligence. A rejoinder is strictly an answer to a reply, tho often used in the general sense of answer, but always with the implication of something more or less controversial or opposed, tho lacking the conclusiveness implied in answer; an answer, in the full sense, to a charge, an argument, or an objection is adequate, and finally refutes and disposes of it; a reply or rejoinder may be quite inadequate, so that one may say, "This reply is not an answer;" "I am ready with an answer" means far more than "I am ready with a reply." A response is accordant or harmonious, designed or adapted to carry on the thought of the words that called it forth, as the responses in a liturgical service, or to meet the wish of him who seeks it; as, the appeal for aid met a prompt and hearty response. Repartee is a prompt, witty, and commonly good-natured answer to some argument or attack; a retort may also be witty, but is severe and may be even savage in its intensity.

   Synonyms:
   answer, rejoinder, repartee, response, retort

   Preposition:
   An answer in writing, or by word of mouth, to the question.

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1. replyverb

   Synonyms:
   replicate, answer, respond, rejoin

   Antonyms:
   ignore, drop, pretermit, pass, disregard

2. replynoun

   Synonyms:
   answer, rejoinder, response, replication

   Antonyms:
   pass by, ignoring

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:2.0 / 4 votes

1. answer, reply, responsenoun

   a statement (either spoken or written) that is made to reply to a question or request or criticism or accusation

   "I waited several days for his answer"; "he wrote replies to several of his critics"

   Synonyms:
   solvent, reception, answer, solution, reply, response, resolution, reaction, result

2. reply, responseverb

   the speech act of continuing a conversational exchange

   "he growled his reply"

   Synonyms:
   response, reaction, reply, reception, answer

3. answer, reply, respondverb

   react verbally

   "She didn't want to answer"; "answer the question"; "We answered that we would accept the invitation"

   Synonyms:
   respond, answer, reply, serve, react, do, suffice, resolve

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1. answer backverb

   to hear back from someone or something

   she waited patiently for them to answer back.

   Submitted by bbc4081 on March 18, 2023  

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1. replyverb

   Synonyms:
   ANSWER, respond, REJOIN

2. replynoun

   Synonyms:
   answer, response, replication, REJOINDER

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1. replynoun

   Synonyms:
   answer, response, rejoinder, retort, repartee

2. replyverb

   Synonyms:
   answer, respond, rejoin, retort

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1. List of paraphrases for "reply":

   response, answer, respond, replica, replies, rebuttal, responding, responses, answered, answers, reaction, answering, svar, replied

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How to use REPLY in a sentence?

1. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov:

   If the partners in the potential coalition keep asking for a set date for Assad to leave the scene, we will reply that this is against the law and against democracy.

2. The Pope:

   You may be asking yourselves,' Who is this man standing before us ?' i would like to reply to that question with something absolutely certain about my own life : The man standing before you is a man who has been forgiven. A man who was, and is, saved from his many sins.

3. Noah Higgs:

   I didn't get a reply.

4. Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson:

   Theirs is not to make reply: Theirs is not to reason why: Theirs is but to do and die.

5. Tigran Petrosian:

   Nigalidze would promptly reply to my moves and then literally run to the toilet.