Ripost

Synonyms for "ripost" (131 found)

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Closest matches (27)

rejoinder retort acknowledge acknowledgment advocate allege in support answer answer back answering antiphon aphorism apothegm argue for argument assert back answer back talk backchat bon mot boutade

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bright idea bright thought brilliant idea champion come back

Noun(1 words)

retort

Verb(1 words)

come back

Strong matches (39)

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2 relation types

has context

1 entries

fencing

related to

2 entries

lunge thrust

Translations

10 translations across 3 languages.

Finnish

4 entries

riposti noun (fencing: a thrust given in return)
vastapisto noun (fencing: a thrust given in return)
vastaveto noun (a quick and witty response to a taunt)
vastaveto noun (an answer or reply rapidly uttered)

Spanish

3 entries

respuesta noun (fencing: a thrust given in return)
respuesta noun (a quick and witty response to a taunt)
respuesta noun (an answer or reply rapidly uttered)

Swedish

3 entries

ripost noun (fencing: a thrust given in return)
ripost noun (a quick and witty response to a taunt)
ripost noun (an answer or reply rapidly uttered)

Sample sentences

2 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

The French government was always apprehensive to the German Government’s ripost to an air offensive.

Source: wiktionary

Written as a ripost to Samuel Constant’s short story Le Mari sentimental, in which the husband is driven to despair and ultimately suicide by his carping wife, Mistress Henly begins with an account of the wife’s reading of the Constant story and how as a reader she links the text of imagination to the realities of her own life.