Answer

Noun

 * 1) A response; something said or done in reaction to a statement or question.
 * Her answer to his proposal was a slap in the face.
 * 1) A solution to a problem.
 * There is no simple answer to curbing corruption.
 * 1) Reply to an email. (reply)
 * 2)  A document filed in response to a complaint, responding to each point raised in the complaint and raising counterpoints.

Verb

 * 1) To make a reply or response to.
 * He answered the question.
 * 1) To respond to a call by someone at a door or telephone, or other similar piece of equipment.
 * She answered the door.
 * 1) To suit a need or purpose satisfactorily.
 * It answers the need.
 * 1) * 1903: Samuel Butler, The Way of All Flesh, Ch. 41
 * Theobald spoke as if watches had half-a-dozen purposes besides time-keeping, but he could hardly open his mouth without using one or other of his tags, and "answering every purpose" was one of them.
 * 1)  To file a document in response to a complaint.
 * 2) To correspond to; to be in harmony with; to be in agreement with.
 * 3) * 1775: Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The Duenna, Act 2, Scene 2
 * I wish she had answered her picture as well.

Synonyms for Answer
reply, acknowledge, respond, retort, rejoin, rebut, confute.

Antonyms for Answer
ask, question.

Derived terms

 * answerable
 * answer at
 * answer back


 * answerer
 * answer for
 * answer the call of nature
 * answer the helm

Derived terms

 * answerless
 * answer on a postcard


 * answerphone
 * answer print

Thesaurus
Agnus Dei; Benedicite; ESP; Gloria; Gloria Patri; Gloria in Excelsis; Introit; Magnificat; Miserere; Nunc Dimittis; Parthian shot; Te Deum; Trisagion; Vedic hymn; accomplishment; accord; acknowledge; acknowledgment; action; action and reaction; ad hoc measure; address; advance; advantage; advocate; affect; affirmation; agree; allegation; allege in support; alleluia; answer back; answer conclusively; answer for; answer to; anthem; antiphon; antiphonal chanting; antiphony; apostrophe; appertain to; apply to; approach; argue down; argue for; argument; artifice; ascertainment; assent; assert; assertion; assort with; atone for; automatic reaction; autonomic reaction; avail; averment; be OK; be consistent; be equal to; be handy; be of one; be of use; be right; be uniform with; bear; bear on; bear upon; befit; befitting; belong to; benefit; bestead; billet; bottom; bounceback; business letter; canticle; champion; chant; check; chime; chit; chorale; clear up; clearing up; coequal; cohere; coincide; come back; come back at; come in; comeback; comment; commerce; communicate with; communication; communion; complement; complete answer; concern; concur; conform; conform to; conform with; confound; confounding; confutation; confute; congress; connect; connection; consist with; contact; contend for; contradict; contradiction; contrivance; controversion; controvert; conversation; converse; cooperate; correspond; correspond to; correspondence; counter; countercharge; countermove; counterstatement; coup; course of action; crack; cracking; crush; deal with; dealing; dealings; debug; decipher; decipherment; declaration; decode; decoding; defeat; defence; defend; defense; demarche; demolish; demolition; demurrer; denial; denouement; deny; determination; device; dictum; discrediting; disentangle; disentanglement; dismiss; dispatch; dispose of; disprove; divine; do; do it; do the job; do the trick; dodge; dope; dope out; dovetail; doxology; echo; effective rejoinder; effort; end; end result; epistle; espouse; establish connection; exception; exchange; exclamation; expedient; explain; explanation; expression; fall in together; fathom; favor; figure out; fill; fill the bill; find out; find the answer; find the solution; finding; finding-out; finish; fit; fit together; flash back; floor; forward; fulfill; get; get by; get right; get to; gimmick; give acknowledgment; give answer; give good returns; go around; go together; go with; greeting; guarantee; guess; guess right; hack it; hallelujah; hang together; harmonize; have connection with; have it; hit; hit it; hold; hold together; hosanna; hymn; hymn of praise; hymnody; hymnography; hymnology; improvisation; information; interaction; interchange; intercommunication; intercommunion; intercourse; interest; interjection; interlock; interplay; interpret; interpretation; interrogate; intersect; involve; issue; jibe; jury-rig; jury-rigged expedient; just do; justification; last expedient; last resort; last shift; laud; letter; liaise with; line; linguistic intercourse; link with; lock; maintain; make a plea; make advances; make contact with; make out; make overtures; make the grade; make up to; makeshift; maneuver; mantra; match; means; measure; meet; meet requirements; mention; message; missive; motet; move; nonplus; not come amiss; note; objection; observation; offertory; offertory sentence; open the lock; outcome; overlap; overthrow; overthrowal; overturn; overwhelm; paean; parallel; parry; pass; pass muster; pay; pay off; pertain to; phrase; pis aller; plea; plead for; pleading; plumb; position; predictable response; profit; promote; pronouncement; psalm; psalmody; psych; psych out; put to silence; puzzle out; qualify; question; raise; ravel; ravel out; reach; react; reaction; reason; rebut; rebuttal; rebutter; reciprocate; recognize; recriminate; reduce to silence; reecho; refer to; reflection; reflex; reflex action; refluence; reflux; refutal; refutation; refute; regard; register; register with; rejoin; rejoinder; relate; relate to; remark; replication; reply; reply to; report; rescript; resolution; resolve; resolving; resort; resource; respect; respond; respond to; respondence; response; responsory; responsory report; result; retort; retroaction; return; return answer; return for answer; reverberate; reverberation; revulsion; riddle; riddling; riposte; rise; satisfy; say; say in defense; say in reply; saying; sentence; serve; serve the purpose; settle; shake-up; shift; shoot back; shut up; silence; sing in chorus; smash all opposition; snap back; social intercourse; solution; solve; solving; sort out; sort with; sorting out; speak for; speak up for; speaking; special demurrer; special pleading; speech; speech circuit; speech situation; sponsor; square; square with; squash; squelch; stand; stand together; stand up; stand up for; statement; statement of defense; step; stick up for; stopgap; stratagem; stretch; stroke; stroke of policy; subjoinder; subversion; subvert; suffice; suit; suit the occasion; support; surrebuttal; surrebutter; surrejoinder; sustain; tactic; take it; take the bait; talk back; talking; tally; telepathy; temporary expedient; thought; tie in with; touch; touch upon; traffic; treat of; trick; truck; trump; two-way communication; undermine; undermining; undo; unlock; unravel; unraveling; unriddle; unriddling; unscramble; unscrambling; unspinning; untangle; untangling; unthinking response; untwist; untwisting; unweave; unweaving; uphold; upset; upsetting; upshot; urge reasons for; utterance; versicle; word; work; work out; working; working hypothesis; working proposition; working-out; yield a profit

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