response
noun
Simple meaning
An answer or reply, or something in the nature of an answer or reply.
Pronunciation
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IPA pronunciation (US)
ɹɪsˈpɑns
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Definition
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noun
An answer or reply, or something in the nature of an answer or reply.
A reaction to a stimulus or provocation.
The act of responding or replying; reply: as, to speak in response to a question.
A reply to an objection in formal disputation.
An oracular answer.
An online advertising performance metric representing one click-through from an online ad to its destination URL.
Word at a Glance
- Difficulty
- A1 · Beginner (estimated)
- Frequency
- Very Common
- Typical Use
- Everyday English
Word Aura™
How this word commonly comes across.
Aura for this meaning
This meaning: An answer or reply, or something in the nature of an answer or reply.
Used this way, response is a reasonably familiar word that usually carries little praise or criticism of its own. It usually sounds natural in a wide range of settings.
- Emotional tone
- Neutral
- Formality
- Neutral
- Intensity
- Not strongly marked
- How common
- Moderately common
- Connotation
- Matter-of-fact
- Usage feel
- Neutral and straightforward
Word Aura describes common impressions, not a measurement. Tone changes with sentence, speaker, relationship and situation.
More ways to use response
- “This situation developed in response to events in Africa.”noun
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Word Family
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Word family
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Worthy of or requiring responsibility or trust.
Containing or using responses.
Compound terms
Established multiword terms.
The time that elapses between a stimulus and the response to it.
An immune response (chiefly against viral or fungal invasions or transplanted tissue) that involves T cells.
An acquired response that is under the control of (conditional on the occurrence of) a stimulus.
A conditioned response that anticipates the occurrence of an aversive stimulus.
An emotional response that has been acquired by conditioning.
An acquired response that is under the control of (conditional on the occurrence of) a stimulus.
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