rejoinders
Quick verbal responses
Rejoinders are replies or responses, especially quick or sharp ones made in conversation or debate.
The term often implies a pointed comeback rather than a neutral answer—something said to counter or challenge what someone else has said.
Her rejoinders were so witty that no one wanted to argue with her.
In legal contexts, a rejoinder is specifically the defendant's answer to the plaintiff's reply.
Formal response disputing claims
- counterargumentPoint challenging another's position
- refutationDisproving a statement
- retortQuick, cutting reply
- objectionExpression of disapproval
contradiction · counterclaim · countercharge · denial · disagreement · dispute · demurral · defense
rebuttal
Formal response disputing claims
- counterargumentPoint challenging another's position
- refutationDisproving a statement
- retortQuick, cutting reply
objection · contradiction · counterclaim · countercharge · denial · disagreement · dispute · demurral · defense · negation
repartee
Quick, clever conversation
riposte · sally · badinage · persiflage · comeback · bon mot · zinger · one-liner · wisecracks · wordplay
response
Answer to stimulus
counter · reaction · feedback · acknowledgment · echo · interjection · aside · follow-up · backtalk · talking back
- witticismsquips, witticisms, witticism, bon mots, bon mot
- expressionsexpression, I love you, phrase, idioms, thank you
rejoindersopening statements
Initial courtroom presentations
opening remarks · initiations · openers · first words · introductions
rejoindersquestions
Requests for information
queries · inquiries · interrogations · prompts · solicitations