responses

NOUN

answer, reaction

Synonyms

STRONGEST

feedback reply return

STRONG

acknowledgment antiphon comeback counter echo hit kickback lip rejoinder retort reverberation riposte sass vibes wisecrack

WEAK

back talk double-take knee-jerk reaction respond snappy comeback

Antonyms

STRONGEST

question request

STRONG

failure

WEAK

asking

Example Sentences

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Businesses earn repeat custom by being able to give satisfactory responses when things don’t go according to plan.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 10, 2026

Yet when the CNN journalist Richard Quest asked a roundtable discussion if airlines were frustrated by "an event you have no control over", the responses were remarkably subdued.

From Barron's • Jun. 8, 2026

Diversification of energy sources, together with normal supply and demand responses, is limiting the Hormuz shock.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 8, 2026

"Elmo don't forget the streets that raised you," a Knicks fan said in one of the milder responses.

From BBC • Jun. 6, 2026

The two questions are identical, of course, and the differing responses are a function of how the question is framed, whether in terms of lives saved or of lives lost.

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos