What is another word for in reply?

Pronunciation: [ɪn ɹɪplˈa͡ɪ] (IPA)

When responding to a message, email, or phone call, a stronger or alternative way to begin the reply would be to use the phrase "in response to". Similarly, you could begin your reply with "as a reply" or "in answer to". If you want to sound more formal, you can use the phrase "in acknowledgment of" or "in acknowledgement to". Other synonyms for "in reply" include "in reaction to", "in return to", and "in rejoinder to". Ultimately, the choice of phrase depends on the tone and level of formality you want to convey in your response.

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What are the hypernyms for In reply?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

Famous quotes with In reply

  • Find out what whiskey he drinks and send all of my generals a case, if it will get the same results. - in reply to comments about General Grant's drinking problems
    Abraham Lincoln
  • The majority of them seem to be "sub-critical," i.e., to correspond in this analogy to piles of sub-critical size. An idea presented to such a mind will on average give rise to less than one idea in reply. A smallish proportion are super-critical. An idea presented to such a mind may give rise to a whole "theory" consisting of secondary, tertiary and more remote ideas.
    Alan Turing
  • When some people urged that it is impossible for man to live like the animals owing to the tenderness of his flesh and because he is naked and unprotected, [Diogenes] would say in reply that men are so very tender because of their mode of life. ... Man’s ingenuity and his discovering and contriving so many helps to life had not been altogether advantageous to later generations, since men do not employ their cleverness to promote courage or justice, but to procure pleasure.
    Dio Chrysostom
  • Even as a child back in Indiana, whenever I took a Butterbelly off the hook I used to ask myself, "Does this fish think?" I would even ask others, "Do you suppose this Butterbelly can think?" And all I would get in reply was a look. At the age of eighteen, I left the state.
    Will Cuppy

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