Definitions

repartee

[rep-er-tee, -tey, -ahr-] / ˌrɛp ərˈti, -ˈteɪ, -ɑr- /

NOUN

pleasant conversation

Synonyms

STRONGEST

banter pleasantry rejoinder retort sarcasm wordplay

STRONG

answer badinage comeback humor irony persiflage quip raillery reply response riposte sally satire wit witticism wittiness

WEAK

bon mot

Antonyms

STRONG

question request seriousness

WEAK

argument disagreement fight

Example Sentences

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I also consulted the book "Viva La Repartee" by Mardy Grothe.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 11, 2011

Wit and Repartee, in an affected Rusticity, were natural to him.

From Characters from 17th Century Histories and Chronicles by Various

President, his Repartee to the French Comedians, 267.Harlem, t.

From The Memoirs of Charles-Lewis, Baron de Pollnitz, Volume II Being the Observations He Made in His Late Travels From Prussia thro' Germany, Italy, France, Flanders, Holland, England, &C. in Letters to His Friend. Discovering Not Only the Present State of the Chief Cities and Towns; but the Characters of the Principal Persons at the Several Courts. by P?llnitz, Karl Ludwig von

"The Idiot," continues to be as amusing and as triumphantly bright in the volume called after his name as in "Coffee and Repartee."

From The Idiot by Bangs, John Kendrick

When a Poet has found the Repartee; the last perfection he can add to it, is to put it into Verse.

From An English Garner Critical Essays & Literary Fragments by Arber, Thomas Seccombe, Professor

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