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词汇 rejoinder
释义 rejoinder
noun[ C ]
 formaluk /rɪˈdʒɔɪn.dər/ us /rɪˈdʒɔɪn.dɚ/
a quick and often angry or humorous answer: 回答;反驳
She always has a witty rejoinder to/for any question.任何问题她总能机敏诙谐地应对。
Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples

an answer
answerWe're still waiting for an answer.
reply "How far?" asked Nigel. "Not far," was the mumbled reply.
answer105 is the correct answer.
responseThank you for your swift response.
reactionWhat was her reaction when she was asked for her resignation?
retortAlan snapped back with a witty retort.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Answering & responding
acknowledgment
affirmatively
answer
answer the door
clap back
clapback
comeback
counter
counterattack
field
I take/plead the Fifth (Amendment)idiom
in the affirmative
keep (someone/something) away
non-respondent
non-responder
non-response
rejoin
respondent
response
thank you

rejoinder | American Dictionary


rejoinder
noun[ C ]
 fmlus/rɪˈdʒɔɪn·dər/
a quick answer, often given in a way that is competitive or amusing:
The reviewer’s mistakes were so flagrant that Gove drafted a strong rejoinder.

Examples of rejoinder


rejoinder
The rejoinder may be that the argument will still be impossible to apply.
Addressing this rejoinder provides the real challenge of comparing the structure of trade in the interwar and post-cold war periods.
It has a middle - the crossfire of reviews and rejoinders during the early 1960s - but no beginning and no ending.
But the objection can be developed so that it is not vulnerable to this rejoinder.
The book also contains six clusters of commentaries written in response to each of the focal chapters, along with rejoinders by the six "primary" authors.
However, so the rejoinder proceeds, consequentialism is required by rationality understood as a normative enterprise.
An obvious rejoinder is that a medical "problem" can never be defined completely in isolation from the state of the art of medical therapy.
I do not, personally, have a definite opinion about the extent to which my rejoinders actually manage to fend off the objections.
Such a rejoinder would deflect the objection presented in my last few paragraphs, but it would trigger again my previous objection.
Any such rejoinder to my arguments would run afoul of two principal snags.
We believe it fits very well, and this belief underpins this rejoinder.
I have only limited space for this rejoinder, and it will be impossible to take up all relevant questions.
Evidently, further studies are needed in order to address this social-pragmatic rejoinder more decisively.
But this rejoinder will not do any better than the one above.
Each rejoinder used in the example above is intended to elicit a strategy for apologizing.
These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.
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