Dictionary Entry
respondent
respondent is a 10-letter English word with 7 senses as adjective and noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Disposed or expected to respond; answering; according; corresponding. Face value is 13 in Scrabble and 16 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
10 letters · Scrabble 13 · Words With Friends 16 · 7 senses
Definitions
- 1adjective
Disposed or expected to respond; answering; according; corresponding.
- 2noun
One who responds. It corresponds in general to defendant.
- 3noun
One who answers in certain suits or proceedings, generally those which are not according to the course of the common law, as in equity and admiralty causes, in petitions for partition, and the like; -- distinquished from appellant.
- 4noun
One who maintains a thesis in reply, and whose province it is to refute objections, or overthrow arguments; -- distinguished from opponent.
- 5noun
someone who responds
- 6noun
the codefendant (especially in a divorce proceeding) who is accused of adultery with the corespondent
- 7adjective
replying
"an answering glance"
"an answering smile"
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