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response

re·sponse
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Transcription

    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • UK Pronunciation
    • UK IPA
    • [ri-spons]
    • /rɪˈspɒns/
    • /rɪˈspɒns/
    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • [ri-spons]
    • /rɪˈspɒns/

Definitions of response word

  • noun response an answer or reply, as in words or in some action. 1
  • noun response Biology. any behavior of a living organism that results from an external or internal stimulus. 1
  • noun response Ecclesiastical. a verse, sentence, phrase, or word said or sung by the choir or congregation in reply to the officiant. Compare versicle (def 2). responsory. 1
  • noun response Bridge. a bid based on an evaluation of one's hand relative to the previous bid of one's partner. 1
  • abbreviation RESPONSE reply 1
  • abbreviation RESPONSE reaction 1
See all 18 definitions of response

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Origin of response

First appearance:

before 1250
One of the 11% oldest English words
1250-1300; < Latin respōnsum, noun use of neuter past participle of respondēre to respond; replacing Middle English respounse < Middle French respons < Latin, as above

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Parts of speech for Response

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Full grammatical hierarchy of Response

response popularity

A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 92% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".

response usage trend in Literature

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Synonyms for response

noun response

  • acknowledgment — An acknowledgment is a statement or action which recognizes that something exists or is true.
  • action — Action is doing something for a particular purpose.
  • aftereffect — The aftereffects of an event, experience, or substance are the conditions which result from it.
  • answer back — If someone, especially a child, answers back, they speak rudely to you when you speak to them.
  • answer — When you answer someone who has asked you something, you say something back to them.

adjective response

  • coldblooded — having a body temperature that fluctuates, approximating that of the surrounding air, land, or water
  • coldhearted — lacking sympathy; unfeeling
  • hardboiled — Alternative spelling of hard-boiled.
All 64 Synonyms of response

Antonyms for response

noun response

  • asking — Present participle of ask.
  • demand — If one thing demands another, the first needs the second in order to happen or be dealt with successfully.
All 2 Antonyms of response

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Related words

  • answer

    When you answer someone who has asked you something, you say something back to them.

  • reaction

    a reverse movement or tendency; an action in a reverse direction or manner.

  • conditioned response

    a response that is transferred from the second to the first of a pair of stimuli. A well-known Pavlovian example is salivation by a dog when it hears a bell ring, because food has always been presented when the bell has been rung previously

  • counterreply

    a reply made in response to a reply; rejoinder.

  • reflex

    Physiology. noting or pertaining to an involuntary response to a stimulus, the nerve impulse from a receptor being transmitted inward to a nerve center that in turn transmits it outward to an effector.

  • selectance

    a measure of the drop in response of a radio receiving set or the like to a given frequency differing from the resonant frequency of the device, expressed as the ratio of the amplitude of the response at the resonant frequency to the amplitude of the response at the given frequency.
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