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Repartee

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. A swift, witty reply.

n. Conversation marked by the exchange of witty retorts. See Synonyms at wit1.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. A swift, witty reply, especially the one that is amusing.

n. A conversation marked by a series of witty retorts.

v. To reply with a repartee

v. To have a repartee (conversation marked by repartees)

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. A smart, ready, and witty reply.

verb-intransitive. To make smart and witty replies.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. A ready, pertinent, and witty reply.

n. Such replies in general or collectively; the kind of wit involved in making sharp and ready retorts.

n. Synonyms Repartee, Retort. A repartee is a witty and good-humored answer to a remark of similar character, and is meant to surpass the latter in wittiness. A retort is a keen, prompt answer. A repartee may be called a retort where the wit is keen. Retort, however, is quite as commonly used for a serious turning back of censure, derision, or the like, in a short and sharp expression.

To make ready and witty replies.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. adroitness and cleverness in reply

Word Usage

"French people generally have always admired a command of words and wit, an elegance of expression and a sharpness of mind expressing itself in repartee, and even in France Paris is particularly famous for it."

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

wittiness humour wit humor witticism

Hyponym

banter raillery backchat give-and-take

Form

reparteed reparteeing

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

retort reply answer joke

Rhyme

Words with the same terminal sound

Ab Ac Ag Agee Aimee

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

epigram banter retort sally quip