Dictionary Entry
reply
reply is a 5-letter English word with 8 senses as intransitive verb, transitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To make a return in words or writing; to respond; to answer. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
5 letters · Scrabble 10 · Words With Friends 11 · 8 senses
Definitions
- 1intransitive verb
To make a return in words or writing; to respond; to answer.
- 2intransitive verb
To answer a defendant's plea.
- 3intransitive verb
Figuratively, to do something in return for something done; as, to reply to a signal; to reply to the fire of a battery.
- 4transitive verb
To return for an answer.
- 5intransitive verb
That which is said, written, or done in answer to what is said, written, or done by another; an answer; a response.
- 6noun
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"
- 7noun
the speech act of continuing a conversational exchange
"he growled his reply"
Synonyms
- 8verb
react verbally
"She didn't want to answer"
"answer the question"
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