Synonyms of the word

counter

• n. An object (now especially a small disc) used in counting or keeping count, or as a marker in games, etc.
• n. (curling) Any stone lying closer to the center than any of the opponent's stones.
• n. A table or board on which money is counted and over which business is transacted; a shop tabletop on which…
• n. One who counts, or reckons up; a reckoner.
• n. A telltale; a contrivance attached to an engine, printing press, or other machine, for the purpose of…
• n. (historical) The prison attached to a city court; a Counter.
• n. (grammar) A class of word used along with numbers to count objects and events, typically mass nouns. Although…
• n. In a kitchen, a surface, often built into the wall and above a cabinet, whereon various food preparations…
• n. In a bathroom, a surface, often built into the wall and above a cabinet, which holds the washbasin.
• n. (wrestling) A proactive defensive hold or move in reaction to a hold or move by one's opponent.
• n. (programming) A variable, memory location, etc. whose contents are incremented to keep a count.
• n. (Internet) A hit counter.
• adv. Contrary, in opposition; in an opposite direction.
• n. (nautical) The overhanging stern of a vessel above the waterline.
• n. The piece of a shoe or a boot around the heel of the foot (above the heel of the shoe/boot).
• v. To contradict, oppose.
• v. (boxing) To return a blow while receiving one, as in boxing.
• v. To take action in response to; to respond.
• adj. Contrary; opposite; contrasted; opposed; adverse; antagonistic.
• adv. In opposition; in an opposite direction; contrariwise.
• adv. In the wrong way; contrary to the right course.
• adv. At or against the front or face.
• n. (obsolete) An encounter.
• n. (nautical) The after part of a vessel's body, from the water line to the stern, below and somewhat forward…
• n. (music) Alternative form of contra Formerly used to designate any under part which served for contrast…
• n. The breast, or that part of a horse between the shoulders and under the neck.
• n. The back leather or heel part of a boot.
• n. (typography) The area of a letter that is entirely or partially enclosed by a letter form or a symbol.

act

• n. (countable) Something done, a deed.
• n. (obsolete, uncountable) Actuality.
• n. (countable) A product of a legislative body, a statute.
• n. The process of doing something.
• n. (countable) A formal or official record of something done.
• n. (countable) A division of a theatrical performance.
• n. (countable) A performer or performers in a show.
• n. (countable) Any organized activity.
• n. (countable) A display of behaviour.
• n. A thesis maintained in public, in some English universities, by a candidate for a degree, or to show the…
• n. (countable) A display of behaviour meant to deceive.
• v. (intransitive) To do something.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To do (something); to perform.
• v. (intransitive) To perform a theatrical role.
• v. (intransitive) To behave in a certain way.
• v. (copulative) To convey an appearance of being.
• v. To do something that causes a change binding on the doer.
• v. (intransitive, construed with on or upon) To have an effect (on).
• v. (transitive) To play (a role).
• v. (transitive) To feign.
• v. (mathematics, intransitive, construed with on or upon, of a group) To map via a homomorphism to a group…
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To move to action; to actuate; to animate.

answer

• n. A response or reply; something said or done in reaction to a statement or question.
• n. A solution to a problem.
• n. (law) A document filed in response to a complaint, responding to each point raised in the complaint and…
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To make a reply or response to.
• v. (transitive) To speak in defence against; to reply to in defence.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To respond to a call by someone at a door or telephone, or other similar piece…
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To suit a need or purpose satisfactorily.
• v. To be accountable or responsible; to make amends.
• v. (law) To file a document in response to a complaint.
• v. To correspond to; to be in harmony with; to be in agreement with.
• v. To be opposite, or to act in opposition.
• v. To be or act in conformity, or by way of accommodation, correspondence, relation, or proportion; to conform;…
• v. To respond to satisfactorily; to meet successfully by way of explanation, argument, or justification;…
• v. To be or act in compliance with, in fulfillment or satisfaction of, as an order, obligation, or demand.
• v. (obsolete) To render account to or for.
• v. (obsolete) To atone; to be punished for.
• v. (obsolete) To be or act as an equivalent to, or as adequate or sufficient for; to serve for; to repay.

antagonistic

• adj. Contending or acting against.

anticipate

• v. (transitive) To act before (someone), especially to prevent an action.
• v. to take up or introduce (something) prematurely.
• v. to know of (something) before it happens; to expect.
• v. to eagerly wait for (something).

biff

• n. A sudden, sharp blow or punch.
• n. (sports) A wipeout.
• v. (transitive) To strike such a blow against.
• v. (New Zealand, slang, transitive) To discard; to throw out; to throw away.
• v. (sports) To wipe out; to faceplant; to fall.

buffet

• n. A counter or sideboard from which food and drinks are served or may be bought.
• n. Food laid out in this way, to which diners serve themselves.
• n. A small stool; a stool for a buffet or counter.
• n. A blow or cuff with or as if with the hand, or by any other solid object or the wind.
• v. (transitive) To strike with a buffet; to cuff; to slap.
• v. (transitive, figuratively) to aggressively challenge, denounce, or criticise.
• v. To affect as with blows; to strike repeatedly; to strive with or contend against.
• v. To deaden the sound of (bells) by muffling the clapper.
• n. A low stool; a hassock.

calculator

• n. A mechanical or electronic device that performs mathematical calculations.
• n. (dated) A person who performs mathematical calculation.
• n. A person who calculates (in the sense of scheming).
• n. (obsolete) A set of mathematical tables.

clout

• n. Influence or effectiveness, especially political.
• n. (regional, informal) A blow with the hand.
• n. (informal) A home run.
• n. (archery) The center of the butt at which archers shoot; probably once a piece of white cloth or a nail…
• n. (regional, dated) A swaddling cloth.
• n. (archaic) A cloth; a piece of cloth or leather; a patch; a rag.
• n. (archaic) An iron plate on an axletree or other wood to keep it from wearing; a washer.
• n. (obsolete) A piece; a fragment.
• v. To hit, especially with the fist.
• v. To cover with cloth, leather, or other material; to bandage, patch, or mend with a clout.
• v. To stud with nails, as a timber, or a boot sole.
• v. To guard with an iron plate, as an axletree.
• v. To join or patch clumsily.

comeback

• n. A return (e.g. to popularity, success, etc.) after an extended period of obscurity.
• n. A retort or answer, particularly a quick or clever one.
• n. (sports) An occurrence of an athlete or sports team in a competition overcoming a substantial disadvantage…

counterpunch

• n. A punch delivered in response to a previous punch by somebody else, such as an opponent in a boxing match.
• n. (printing, historical) A punch used in the cutting of other punches, often used to create the negative…
• v. (boxing) To deliver a punch designed to exploit an opponent's momentary defensive weakness caused by a…
• v. To deliver a competitive response to an opponent designed to exploit a weakness created by the opponent's…

foresee

• v. To anticipate; to predict.
• v. (obsolete) To provide.

forestall

• v. (transitive) To prevent, delay or hinder something by taking precautionary or anticipatory measures; to…
• v. (transitive) To preclude or bar from happening, render impossible.
• v. (archaic) To purchase the complete supply of a good, particularly foodstuffs, in order to charge a monopoly…
• v. To anticipate, to act foreseeingly.
• v. To deprive (with of).
• v. (Britain, law) To obstruct or stop up, as a road; to stop the passage of a highway; to intercept on the…
• n. (obsolete or historical) An ambush; plot; an interception; waylaying; rescue.
• n. Something situated or placed in front.

furniture

• n. (now usually uncountable) Large movable item(s), usually in a room, which enhance(s) the room's characteristics,…
• n. The harness, trappings etc. of a horse, hawk, or other animal.
• n. Fittings, such as handles, of a door, coffin, or other wooden item.
• n. (firearms) the stock and forearm of a weapon.

individual

• n. A person considered alone, rather than as belonging to a group of people.
• n. (law) A single physical human being as a legal subject, as opposed to a legal person such as a corporation.
• n. An object, be it a thing or an agent, as contrasted to a class.
• n. (statistics) An element belonging to a population.
• adj. Relating to a single person or thing as opposed to more than one.
• adj. Intended for a single person as opposed to more than one person.

lick

• n. The act of licking; a stroke of the tongue.
• n. The amount of some substance obtainable with a single lick.
• n. A quick and careless application of anything, as if by a stroke of the tongue, or of something which acts…
• n. A place where animals lick minerals from the ground.
• n. A small watercourse or ephemeral stream. It ranks between a rill and a stream.
• n. (colloquial) A stroke or blow.
• n. (colloquial) A bit.
• n. (music) A short motif.
• n. Speed. (Always qualified by good, fair, or a similar adjective.).
• v. To stroke with the tongue.
• v. (colloquial) To defeat decisively, particularly in a fight.
• v. (colloquial) To overcome.
• v. (vulgar, slang) To perform cunnilingus.
• v. (colloquial) To do anything partially.
• v. (of flame, waves etc.) To lap.
• v. To lap; to take in with the tongue.

mortal

• adj. Susceptible to death by aging, sickness, injury, or wound; not immortal.
• adj. Causing death; deadly, fatal, killing, lethal (now only of wounds, injuries etc.).
• adj. Fatally vulnerable; vital.
• adj. Of or relating to the time of death.
• adj. Affecting as if with power to kill; deathly.
• adj. Human; belonging to man, who is mortal.
• adj. Very painful or tedious; wearisome.
• adj. (Britain, slang) Very drunk; wasted; smashed.
• n. A human; someone susceptible to death.

move

• v. (intransitive) To change place or posture; to stir; to go, in any manner, from one place or position to…
• v. (intransitive) To act; to take action; to stir; to begin to act.
• v. (intransitive) To change residence, for example from one house, town, or state, to another; to go and…
• v. (intransitive, chess, and other games) To change the place of a piece in accordance with the rules of…
• v. (transitive, ergative) To cause to change place or posture in any manner; to set in motion; to carry,…
• v. (transitive, chess) To transfer (a piece or man) from one space or position to another, according to the…
• v. (transitive) To excite to action by the presentation of motives; to rouse by representation, persuasion,…
• v. (transitive) To arouse the feelings or passions of; especially, to excite to tenderness or compassion,…
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To propose; to recommend; specifically, to propose formally for consideration…
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To mention; to raise (a question); to suggest (a course of action); to lodge (a…
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To incite, urge (someone to do something); to solicit (someone for or of an issue);…
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To apply to, as for aid.
• v. (law, transitive, intransitive) To request an action from the court.
• n. The act of moving; a movement.
• n. An act for the attainment of an object; a step in the execution of a plan or purpose.
• n. A formalized or practiced action used in athletics, dance, physical exercise, self-defense, hand-to-hand…
• n. The event of changing one's residence.
• n. A change in strategy.
• n. A transfer, a change from one employer to another.
• n. (board games) The act of moving a token on a gameboard from one position to another according to the rules…

negative

• adj. not positive or neutral.
• adj. (physics) of electrical charge of an electron and related particles.
• adj. (mathematics) of number, less than zero.
• adj. (linguistics, logic) denying a proposition.
• adj. damaging; undesirable; unfavourable.
• adj. pessimistic; not tending to see the bright side of things. (Often used pejoratively.).
• adj. Of or relating to a photographic image in which the colours of the original, and the relations of right…
• adj. (chemistry) metalloidal; nonmetallic; contrasted with positive or basic.
• adj. (New Age jargon) (pejorative) bad, unwanted, disagreeable, potentially damaging, to be avoided, unpleasant,…
• adj. Characterized by the presence of features which do not support a hypothesis.
• n. refusal or withholding of assents; veto, prohibition.
• n. (law) a right of veto.
• n. (photography) an image in which dark areas represent light ones, and the converse.
• n. (grammar) a word that indicates negation.
• n. (mathematics) a negative quantity.
• n. (weightlifting): A rep performed with weight in which the muscle begins at maximum contraction and is…
• n. The negative plate of a voltaic or electrolytic cell.
• v. To veto; to refuse.
• v. To contradict.
• v. To disprove.
• v. To make ineffective, neutralize.
• interj. (signalling, law) An elaborate synonym for the word No.

parry

• n. A defensive or deflective action; an act of parrying.
• n. (fencing) A simple defensive action designed to deflect an attack, performed with the forte of the blade.
• v. To avoid, deflect, or ward off (an attack, a blow, an argument, etc.).

person

• n. An individual; usually a human being.
• n. The physical body of a being seen as distinct from the mind, character, etc.
• n. (law) Any individual or formal organization with standing before the courts.
• n. (law) The human genitalia; specifically, the penis.
• n. (grammar) A linguistic category used to distinguish between the speaker of an utterance and those to whom…
• n. (biology) A shoot or bud of a plant; a polyp or zooid of the compound Hydrozoa, Anthozoa, etc.; also,…
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To represent as a person; to personify; to impersonate.
• v. (transitive, gender-neutral) To man.

poke

• v. To prod or jab with an object such as a finger or a stick.
• v. To stir up a fire to remove ash or promote burning.
• v. (figuratively) To rummage as in to poke about in.
• v. (transitive, computing) To modify the value stored in (a memory address).
• v. To put a poke on.
• v. To thrust with the horns; to gore.
• v. (informal, Internet) To notify.
• v. (transitive) To thrust (something) in a particular direction such as the tongue.
• n. A prod, jab, or punch.
• n. (US, slang) A lazy person; a dawdler.
• n. (US, slang) A stupid or uninteresting person.
• n. (US) A device to prevent an animal from leaping or breaking through fences, consisting of a yoke with…
• n. (computing) The storage of a value in a memory address, typically to modify the behaviour of a program…
• n. (now regional) A sack or bag.
• n. A long, wide sleeve; a poke sleeve.
• n. (Scotland, Northern Ireland) An ice cream cone.
• n. (dialectal) Pokeweed.
• n. (Hawaii) Slices or cubes of raw fish or other raw seafood, mixed with sesame oil, seaweed, sea salt, herbs,…

punch

• n. (countable) A hit or strike with one's fist.
• n. (uncountable) Power, strength, energy.
• n. (uncountable) Impact.
• n. (uncountable) A button (of a joypad, joystick or similar device) causing a video game character to punch.
• v. (transitive) To strike with one's fist.
• v. (transitive, of cattle) To herd.
• v. (transitive) To operate (a device or system) by depressing a button, key, bar, or pedal, or by similar…
• v. (transitive) To enter (information) on a device or system.
• v. (transitive) To hit (a ball or similar object) with less than full force.
• v. (transitive) To make holes in something (rail ticket, leather belt, etc).
• v. To thrust against; to poke.
• n. (countable) A device, generally slender and round, used for creating holes in thin material, for driving…
• n. (countable) A mechanism for punching holes in paper or other thin material.
• n. (countable) A hole or opening created with a punch.
• n. (piledriving) An extension piece applied to the top of a pile; a dolly.
• n. A prop, as for the roof of a mine.
• v. To employ a punch to create a hole in or stamp or emboss a mark on something.
• v. To mark a ticket.
• n. A beverage, generally containing a mixture of fruit juice and some other beverage, often alcoholic.

register

• n. A formal recording of names, events, transactions etc.
• n. A book of such entries.
• n. An entry in such a book.
• n. The act of registering.
• n. A certificate issued by the collector of customs of a port or district to the owner of a vessel, containing…
• n. One who registers or records; a registrar; especially, a public officer charged with the duty of recording…
• n. A device that automatically records a quantity.
• n. The part of a telegraphic apparatus that automatically records the message received.
• n. (telecommunications) A list of received calls in a phone set.
• n. (computing) A small unit of very fast memory that is directly accessible to the central processing unit,…
• n. (printing) The exact alignment of lines, margins and colors.
• n. (printing) The inner part of the mould in which types are cast.
• n. (music) The range of a voice or instrument.
• n. (music) An organ stop.
• n. (linguistics) A style of a language used in a particular context.
• n. A grille at the outflow of a ventilation duct.
• n. (chiefly US) Clipping of cash register.
• v. (transitive) To enter in a register.
• v. (transitive) To enroll, especially to vote.
• v. (transitive) To record, especially in writing.
• v. (transitive) To buy the full version of a trial software.
• v. (transitive) To express outward signs.
• v. (transitive, mail) To record officially and handle specially.
• v. (transitive, printing) To adjust so as to be properly aligned.
• v. (intransitive) To place one's name, or have one's name placed in a register.
• v. (intransitive) To enroll as a student.
• v. (intransitive) To make an impression.
• v. (intransitive) To be in proper alignment.
• v. (law) To voluntarily sign over for safe keeping, abandoning complete ownership for partial.

rejoinder

• n. (law) defendant's answer to the replication.
• n. A quick response that involves disagreement or is witty; especially an answer to a question.
• n. (patent law) in US patent law re-insertion, typically after allowance of a patent application, of patent…
• v. (intransitive) To issue a rejoinder.
• v. (transitive) To say as a rejoinder.

replication

• n. Process by which an object, person, place or idea may be copied mimicked or reproduced.
• n. Copy; reproduction.
• n. (law) A response from the plaintiff to the defendant's plea.
• n. (biology) The process of producing replicas of DNA or RNA molecules.
• n. (computing) The process of frequent electronic data copying a one database in one computer or server to…

reply

• v. (transitive, intransitive) To give a written or spoken response, especially to a question, request, accusation…
• v. (intransitive) To act or gesture in response.
• v. (intransitive) To repeat something back; to echo.
• n. A written or spoken response; part of a conversation.
• n. Something given in reply.

respond

• v. (transitive, intransitive) To say something in return; to answer; to reply.
• v. (intransitive) To act in return; to exhibit some action or effect in return to a force or stimulus; to…
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To correspond with; to suit.
• v. (transitive) To satisfy; to answer.
• n. A response.
• n. A versicle or short anthem chanted at intervals during the reading of a lection.
• n. (architecture) A half-pillar, pilaster, or any corresponding device engaged in a wall to receive the impost…

response

• n. An answer or reply, or something in the nature of an answer or reply.
• n. The act of responding or replying; reply: as, to speak in response to a question.
• n. An oracular answer.
• n. (liturgics) A verse, sentence, phrase, or word said or sung by the choir or congregation in sequence or…
• n. (liturgics) A versicle or anthem said or sung during or after a lection; a respond or responsory.
• n. A reply to an objection in formal disputation.
• n. An online advertising performance metric representing one click-through from an online ad to its destination…
• n. A reaction to a stimulus or provocation.

retort

• n. A sharp or witty reply, or one which turns an argument against its originator; a comeback.
• v. To say something sharp or witty in answer to a remark or accusation.
• v. To make a remark which reverses an argument upon its originator; to return, as an argument, accusation,…
• v. To bend or curve back.
• v. To throw back; to reverberate; to reflect.
• n. (chemistry) A flask with a rounded base and a long neck that is bent down and tapered, used to heat a…
• n. A container in which material is subjected to high temperatures as part of an industrial manufacturing…
• v. (transitive) To heat in a retort.

return

• v. (intransitive) To come or go back (to a place or person).
• v. (intransitive) To go back in thought, narration, or argument.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To turn back, retreat.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To turn (something) round.
• v. (transitive) To place or put back something where it had been.
• v. (transitive) To give something back to its original holder or owner.
• v. (transitive) To take back something to a vendor for a refund.
• v. To give in requital or recompense; to requite.
• v. (tennis) To bat the ball back over the net in response to a serve.
• v. (card games) To play a card as a result of another player's lead.
• v. (cricket) To throw a ball back to the wicket-keeper (or a fielder at that position) from somewhere in…
• v. (transitive) To say in reply; to respond.
• v. (intransitive, computing) To relinquish control to the calling procedure.
• v. (transitive, computing) To pass (data) back to the calling procedure.
• v. (transitive, dated) To retort; to throw back.
• v. (transitive) To report, or bring back and make known.
• v. (by extension, Britain) To elect according to the official report of the election officers.
• n. The act of returning.
• n. A return ticket.
• n. An item that is returned, e.g. due to a defect, or the act of returning it.
• n. An answer.
• n. An account, or formal report, of an action performed, of a duty discharged, of facts or statistics, etc…
• n. Gain or loss from an investment.
• n. (taxation, finance): A report of income submitted to a government for purposes of specifying exact tax…
• n. (computing) A carriage return character.
• n. (computing) The act of relinquishing control to the calling procedure.
• n. (computing) A return value: the data passed back from a called procedure.
• n. A short perpendicular extension of a desk, usually slightly lower.
• n. (American football) Catching a ball after a punt and running it back towards the opposing team.
• n. (cricket) A throw from a fielder to the wicket-keeper or to another fielder at the wicket.
• n. (architecture) The continuation in a different direction, most often at a right angle, of a building,…

riposte

• n. (fencing) a thrust given in return after parrying an attack.
• n. a counter-attack in any combat or any sport.
• n. a quick and usually witty response to a taunt, a retort.
• n. an answer or reply, rapidly uttered, in response to a question or problem.
• v. (fencing) to attempt to hit an opponent after parrying an attack.
• v. to respond quickly; particularly if the response is humorous.

sideboard

• n. A piece of dining room furniture having drawers and shelves for linen and tableware; originally for serving…
• n. A board that forms part of the side of something.
• n. (in the plural, chiefly Britain) Sideburns.
• n. (collectible card games) A set of cards that are separate from a player's primary deck, used to customize…

somebody

• pron. Some unspecified person.
• n. A recognised person, a celebrity.

someone

• pron. Some person.
• n. A partially specified but unnamed person.

soul

• n. (religion, folklore) The spirit or essence of a person usually thought to consist of one's thoughts and…
• n. The spirit or essence of anything.
• n. Life, energy, vigor.
• n. (music) Soul music.
• n. A person, especially as one among many.
• n. An individual life.
• n. (mathematics) A kind of submanifold involved in the soul theorem of Riemannian geometry.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To endow with a soul; to furnish with a soul or mind.
• v. (obsolete) To afford suitable sustenance.

table

• n. Furniture with a top surface to accommodate a variety of uses.
• n. A two-dimensional presentation of data.
• n. (music) The top of a stringed instrument, particularly a member of the violin family: the side of the…
• n. (backgammon) One half of a backgammon board, which is divided into the inner and outer table.
• v. To put on a table.
• v. (Britain, Canada, New Zealand) To propose for discussion (from to put on the table).
• v. (US) To hold back to a later time; to postpone.
• v. To tabulate; to put into a table.
• v. To delineate, as on a table; to represent, as in a picture.
• v. To supply with food; to feed.
• v. (carpentry) To insert, as one piece of timber into another, by alternate scores or projections from the…
• v. To enter upon the docket.
• v. (nautical) To make board hems in the skirts and bottoms of (sails) in order to strengthen them in the…

tabulator

• n. A person who counts or tabulates things.
• n. The mechanism on a typewriter that sets the position of columns and borders.
• n. (computing) An early data processing machine that produces printed lists and totals from data on punched…