What is another word for rejoinders?

Pronunciation: [ɹɪd͡ʒˈɔ͡ɪndəz] (IPA)

Rejoinders are defined as a quick and witty response to something said. Some synonyms for rejoinders are retorts, comebacks, repartee, ripostes, quips, sallies, zingers, wisecracks, and banter. These words all carry the connotation of a clever response or comeback during a conversation. Retorts and comebacks may be used in a more confrontational situation, while repartee and banter refer to a more playful exchange of words. Zingers and quips specifically refer to a sharp and witty comment, while sallies and ripostes might be used more in a longer exchange of witty remarks. Whatever term you decide to use, a clever rejoinder can make for an entertaining conversation.

What are the hypernyms for Rejoinders?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

Usage examples for Rejoinders

I have often thought, when we left his company, that I would put down his clever, witty rejoinders-they were legion!
"Memoirs of James Robert Hope-Scott, Volume 2"
Robert Ornsby
The scheme received from Bonaparte a courteous perusal; but he subjected it to several criticisms, which led to less patient rejoinders from the irascible potentate.
"The Life of Napoleon I (Volumes, 1 and 2)"
John Holland Rose
It was a war of protocols, arguments, orations, rejoinders, apostilles, and pamphlets; very wholesome for the cause of free institutions and the intellectual progress of mankind.
"History of the United Netherlands, 1586-89, Vol. II. Complete"
John Lothrop Motley Last Updated: February 7, 2009

Famous quotes with Rejoinders

  • Those who, like the present writer, never had the privilege of meeting Sidgwick can infer from his writings, and still more from the characteristic philosophic merits of such pupils of his as McTaggart and Moore, how acute and painstaking a thinker and how inspiring a teacher he must have been. Yet he has grave defects as a writer which have certainly detracted from his fame. His style is heavy and involved, and he seldom allowed that strong sense of humour, which is said to have made him a delightful conversationalist, to relieve the uniform dull dignity of his writing. He incessantly refines, qualifies, raises objections, answers them, and then finds further objections to the answers. Each of these objections, rebuttals, rejoinders, and surrejoinders is in itself admirable, and does infinite credit to the acuteness and candour of the author. But the reader is apt to become impatient; to lose the thread of the argument: and to rise from his desk finding that he has read a great deal with constant admiration and now remembers little or nothing. The result is that Sidgwick probably has far less influence at present than he ought to have, and less than many writers, such as Bradley, who were as superior to him in literary style as he was to them in ethical and philosophical acumen. Even a thoroughly second-rate thinker like T. H. Green, by diffusing a grateful and comforting aroma of ethical "uplift", has probably made far more undergraduates into prigs than Sidgwick will ever make into philosophers.
    C. D. Broad

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