Need another word that means the same as “respond”? Find 18 synonyms and 30 related words for “respond” in this overview.
The synonyms of “Respond” are: answer, reply, react, reply to, say something in response to, say in response, rejoin, retort, return, riposte, counter, fling back, hurl back, retaliate, come back, react to, act in response to, make a response
According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “respond” as a verb can have the following definitions:
act in response to | Have an effect or outcome; often the one desired or expected. |
answer | Give the correct answer or solution to. Answer the question. |
come back | Be a native of. |
counter | Act in advance of; deal with ahead of time. He countered with some very persuasive arguments. |
fling back | Move in an abrupt or headlong manner. |
hurl back | Throw forcefully. |
make a response | Calculate as being. |
react | Undergo a chemical reaction react with another substance under certain conditions. The market reacted by falling a further 3 1. |
react to | Show a response or a reaction to something. |
rejoin | Join together again; reunite. The stone had been cracked and crudely rejoined. |
reply | Say something in response to something someone has said. He was gone before we could reply to his last remark. |
reply to | React verbally. |
retaliate | Make an attack in return for a similar attack. The Israeli army retaliated for the Hamas bombing. |
retort | Use (an opponent’s argument) against them. He was resolute to retort the charge of treason on his foes. |
return | Return to a previous position in mathematics. They had six passes intercepted five were returned for touchdowns. |
riposte | Make a return thrust. His opponent riposted. |
say in response | Communicate or express nonverbally. |
say something in response to | Speak, pronounce, or utter in a certain way. |
address | Address or apply oneself to something direct one s efforts towards something such as a question. A numerical value which acts as a storage address for the data. |
airmail | Send or transport by airmail. An airmail letter. |
albedo | The proportion of the incident light or radiation that is reflected by a surface, typically that of a planet or moon. The lunar maria have a lower albedo than the surrounding terrain. |
answer | Give the correct answer or solution to. The answers were in the back of the book. |
coolly | In a composed and unconcerned manner. She was coolly dressed down in cut off jean shorts. |
correspondence | An attribute of a shape or relation; exact reflection of form on opposite sides of a dividing line or plane. Sophie wrote a letter to Rosamund with whom she kept up a regular correspondence. |
Send an email to someone. Employees can email the results back. | |
envelope | A flat (usually rectangular) container for a letter, thin package, etc. The switch itself is a glass envelope filled with rare gases and containing two contacts. |
flexibly | In a way that bends easily without breaking. Most women who have children want to work flexibly. |
Email. You ve got mail. | |
mailbox | A public box with a slot into which mail is placed for collection by the post office; a postbox. |
mailing | The action or process of sending something by mail. The candidate sent out three large mailings. |
oh | A midwestern state in north central United States in the Great Lakes region. |
pardon | Grant a pardon to. The Thanksgiving turkey was pardoned by the President. |
post | The system whereby messages are transmitted via the post office. A curt notice had been posted on the door. |
postage | A small adhesive token stuck on a letter or package to indicate that that postal fees have been paid. The prices include postage and packing. |
postal | Of or relating to the system for delivering mail. Postal services. |
react | Show a response or a reaction to something. The hydrogen and the oxygen react. |
recipient | A person who receives something. The recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize. |
reciprocate | (of a part of a machine) move backwards and forwards in a straight line. Perhaps I was expected to reciprocate with some remark of my own. |
relay | A signal or broadcast transmitted by a relay. Gangs of workers were sent in relays. |
replication | The act of making copies. Scientists will not believe an experimental result until they have seen at least one replication. |
reply | A statement either spoken or written that is made to reply to a question or request or criticism or accusation. I am writing in reply to your letter. |
response | The speech act of continuing a conversational exchange. An Honours degree course in Japanese has been established in response to an increasing demand. |
responsive | Readily reacting or replying to people or events or stimuli; showing emotion. I m distracted by a nibble on my line I jig it several times but there is no responsive tug. |
retort | Repay (an insult or injury. It was now his time to retort the humiliation. |
riposte | A quick, clever reply to an insult or criticism. You ve got a strange sense of honour Grant riposted. |
send | Send a message or letter. It s the spectacle and music that send us not the words. |
sender | Someone who transmits a message. Senders of unwanted emails. |
spam | Irrelevant or unsolicited messages sent over the internet, typically to a large number of users, for the purposes of advertising, phishing, spreading malware, etc. An autogenerated spam website. |
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