repartee

Speech parts

1. repartee - Noun

2. repartee - Verb

Meaning

A smart, ready, and witty reply.

To make smart and witty replies.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

retort quip reply banter rejoinder comeback riposte witticism wordplay witty comeback sally mot daffodil response ha-ha
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Antonyms

bicker difference fight conflict debate argument
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Hypernyms

humor humour wit witticism wittiness

Hyponyms

banter backchat raillery give-and-take

Derivatives

reparteed reparteeing

Anagrams

repeater peartree rerepeat

Examples

A majority is always better than the best repartee. Benjamin Disraeli

Silence is the unbearable repartee. G. K. Chesterton

I love to engage in repartee with people who are stupider than I am. Ann Coulter

Repartee is something we think of twenty-four hours too late. Mark Twain

Beneath the surface of repartee and mock seriousness, [Plato's Phaedrus] is asking whether we ought to prefer a neuter form of speech to the kind which is ever getting us aroused over things and provoking an expense of spirit. Richard Weaver

Silence is the unbearable repartee. Alexander Theroux

Close letter words and terms

reparse point reparsing repart repartimiento repartition repartitionable