to reply in rebuttal
1reply — Synonyms and related words: ESP, acknowledge, acknowledgment, action and reaction, advocate, allege in support, answer, answer back, answering, antiphon, approach, argue for, argument, assert, automatic reaction, autonomic reaction, back answer,… …
2rebuttal — re·but·tal /ri bət əl/ n: the act or procedure of rebutting; also: evidence or argument that rebuts Merriam Webster’s Dictionary of Law. Merriam Webster. 1996. rebuttal …
3reply — re·ply n: a plaintiff s or complainant s response to a plea, allegation, or counterclaim in the defendant s answer Merriam Webster’s Dictionary of Law. Merriam Webster. 1996. reply …
4rebuttal — [n] counterstatement answer, confutation, counteraccusation, counterargument, countercharge, counterclaim, defense, rejoinder, reply; concepts 274,278 …
5rebuttal — noun a) the act of refuting something by making a contrary argument, or presenting contrary evidence b) a pleading by a defendant in reply to the evidence put forward by a plaintiff or the prosecution …
6rebuttal — Synonyms and related words: answer, argument, bucking, challenge, comeback, complete answer, confounding, confutation, contention, contradiction, contraposition, contraremonstrance, contravention, contraversion, controversion, counteraccusation,… …
7rebuttal — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. refutation, rejoinder, retort, answer, defense, clincher, crusher (inf.), the perfect squelch (inf.); counterstatement, negation, disclaimer. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. reply, return, confutation,… …
8rebuttal — noun 1. the speech act of refuting by offering a contrary contention or argument • Derivationally related forms: ↑rebut • Hypernyms: ↑refutation, ↑defense, ↑defence 2. (law) a pleading by the defendant in reply to a plaintiff s surrejoinder …
9Self-referencing doomsday argument rebuttal — Self referencing doomsday argument rebuttals attempt to refute the Doomsday argument (that there is a credible link between the brevity of the human race s existence and its expected extinction) by applying the same reasoning to the life time of… …
10retort — Synonyms and related words: acknowledge, acknowledgment, aerosol, alembic, answer, answer back, answering, antiphon, anvil, aphorism, apothegm, atomizer, back answer, back talk, backchat, backfire, bon mot, boomerang, boutade, bright idea, bright …
