Riposting - English meaning

Riposting – definitions in English dictionary

verb
Make a quick, clever reply to an insult or criticism.
Usage examples:
‘you've got a strange sense of honour,’ grant riposted
Synonims:
RetortCounterRejoinReturnRetaliateHurl backFling backSnap backAnswerReplyRespondSay in responseRound on someoneCome back
verb
Make a quick return thrust in fencing.
Usage examples:
Jack yielded the parry, rolling his wrist into second to protect his right leg, and then jumped bac…

noun
A quick, clever reply to an insult or criticism.
Usage examples:
The dialogue, too, feels like piecework, as if the bons mots and ripostes have been assembled from …

noun
A quick return thrust in fencing.
Usage examples:
Forcing the blade aside, he delivered a crushing riposte, thrusting with his weapon towards his mid…

verb
Present participle of riposte
Usage examples:
[ + that ] she simply riposted that she did not create the book for the scientific community., [ + …

Riposting translation into English

Riposting: translate from English into Chinese

回帖

Riposting: translate from English into Dutch

Reposten

Riposting: translate from English into French

Riposte, Riposter

Riposting: translate from English into German

Gegenrede, Replizieren

Riposting: translate from English into Hindi

रिपोस्टिंग

Riposting: translate from English into Italian

Ripostare, Replicare

Riposting: translate from English into Korean

반성, 되찌르다, ...라고 재치있는 즉답을 하다, 재치있는 즉답을 하다

Riposting: translate from English into Russian

Репост, Парировать удар, Парировать укол, Отвечать быстро и находчиво

Riposting: translate from English into Spanish

Replicando, Replicar

Word origin

early 18th century: from French risposte (noun), risposter (verb), from Italian risposta ‘response’.

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Riposting – similar words

ripostes

noun
A quick, clever reply to an insult or criticism.
Usage examples:
The dialogue, too, feels like piecework, as if the bons mots and ripostes have been assembled from …

verb
Make a quick, clever reply to an insult or criticism.
Usage examples:
‘you've got a strange sense of honour,’ grant riposted

noun
A quick and clever remark, often made in answer to a criticism
Usage examples:
She made a sharp/witty/neat riposte., [ + that ] she simply riposted that she did not create the bo…

Ripostes - all meanings in English

riposted

verb
Make a quick, clever reply to an insult or criticism.
Usage examples:
‘you've got a strange sense of honour,’ grant riposted

noun
A quick, clever reply to an insult or criticism.
Usage examples:
The dialogue, too, feels like piecework, as if the bons mots and ripostes have been assembled from …

noun
A quick return thrust in fencing.
Usage examples:
Forcing the blade aside, he delivered a crushing riposte, thrusting with his weapon towards his mid…

Riposted - all meanings in English

riposte

noun
A quick, clever reply to an insult or criticism.
Usage examples:
The dialogue, too, feels like piecework, as if the bons mots and ripostes have been assembled from …

verb
Make a quick, clever reply to an insult or criticism.
Usage examples:
‘you've got a strange sense of honour,’ grant riposted

noun
A quick and clever remark, often made in answer to a criticism
Usage examples:
She made a sharp/witty/neat riposte., [ + that ] she simply riposted that she did not create the bo…

Riposte - all meanings in English

Riposting synonims

answer

ˈɑːn.sər

noun
A thing that is said, written, or done as a reaction to a question, statement, or situation.
Usage examples:
He knocked and entered without waiting for an answer

verb
Say or write something as a reaction to someone or something.
Usage examples:
‘of course i can,’ she answered

verb
A statement made to reply to a question or criticism

Answer - all meanings in English

come back

phrasal verb
Go back to something earlier

phrasal verb
To return
Usage examples:
Come back and see us again sometime., as soon as she entered the school, childhood memories came ru…

Come back - all meanings in English

counter

ˈkaʊn.tər

noun
A long flat-topped fitment across which business is conducted in a shop or bank or refreshments are served in a cafeteria.
Usage examples:
Having eaten these we were hard pressed to ignore the shop counter as we departed.

verb
Speak or act in opposition to.
Usage examples:
The second argument is more difficult to counter

adverb
In the opposite direction or in opposition to.
Usage examples:
His writing ran counter to the dominant trends of the decade

Counter - all meanings in English

rejoin

verb
Join together again; reunite.
Usage examples:
The stone had been cracked and crudely rejoined

verb
Say something in reply, typically in a quick or critical manner.
Usage examples:
‘it's nice to talk under the stars.’ ‘no stars tonight,’ he rejoined

verb
Join again

Rejoin - all meanings in English

reply

verb
Say something in response to something someone has said.
Usage examples:
He was gone before we could reply to his last remark

noun
A verbal or written answer.
Usage examples:
I received a reply from the managing director

verb
To answer a question
Usage examples:
[ i ] she asked him how old he was but he didn’t reply., [ + that clause ] he replied that he wasn’…

Reply - all meanings in English

respond

verb
Say something in reply.
Usage examples:
She could not get robert to respond to her words

noun
A half-pillar or half-pier attached to a wall to support an arch, especially at the end of an arcade.
Usage examples:
The e and w responds of both nave arcades are romanesque.

verb
Show a reaction to something

Respond - all meanings in English

retaliate

verb
Make an attack in return for a similar attack.
Usage examples:
The blow stung and she retaliated immediately

verb
Make a counterattack and return like for like

verb
To hurt someone or do something harmful to someone because that person has done or said something harmful to you
Usage examples:
His first instinct was to retaliate against the attacks., she said she was fired in retaliation for…

Retaliate - all meanings in English

retort

verb
Say something in answer to a remark, typically in a sharp, angry, or witty manner.
Usage examples:
‘no need to be rude,’ retorted isabel

noun
A sharp, angry, or witty reply.
Usage examples:
She opened her mouth to make a suitably cutting retort

verb
Heat in a retort in order to separate or purify.
Usage examples:
The raw shale is retorted at four crude oil works

Retort - all meanings in English

return

verb
Come or go back to a place or person.
Usage examples:
He returned to america in the late autumn

noun
An act of coming or going back to a place or activity.
Usage examples:
He celebrated his safe return from the war

verb
To come or go back to a previous place, subject, activity, or condition
Usage examples:
He returned to new york last week., he worked at other jobs but kept returning to mining., she was …

Return - all meanings in English

round on someone

phrasal verb
To suddenly turn and attack someone or something
Usage examples:
The fox rounded on its pursuers., the mayor rounded on his critics with a very forceful speech.

Round on someone - all meanings in English

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