response
An answer or reply, or something in the nature of an answer or reply.
Example
“When pushed for an answer, she gave the stock response.”
Other meanings
The act of responding or replying; reply: as, to speak in response to a question.
An oracular answer.
Synonyms
- reaction
- answer
- reply
Related words
- rapid response system
- rapid response team
- alloresponse
- autoresponse
- bioresponse
- chemoresponse
- counterresponse
- electroresponse
- graviresponse
- hyperresponse
- hyporesponse
- immunoresponse
Example sentences
Word history
From Latin "respōnsum".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “response” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.