Definition of Answering

1. Adjective. Replying. "An answering smile"

Exact synonyms: Respondent
Similar to: Responsive
Derivative terms: Respond, Respondent

Definition of Answering

1. Verb. (present participle of answer) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Answering

1. answer [v] - See also: answer

Lexicographical Neighbors of Answering

answer the helm
answer to
answerabilities
answerability
answerable
answerableness
answerably
answered
answered back
answered for
answerer
answerers
answerest
answereth
answerin'
answering
answering back
answering for
answering machine
answering machines
answerless
answerphone
answerphones
answers
answers back
answers for
ansätze
ant
ant-
ant-bear

Literary usage of Answering

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the High Court of Chancery: During by Great Britain Court of Chancery, Edward Thurlow Thurlow, Alexander Wedderburn Rosslyn, Jonathan Cogswell Perkins (1845)
"CONVERSION directed by Will of real estate into personal, not to all intents, but for the purpose only of answering legacies and annuities : subject to that ..."

2. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the High Court of Chancery: From by Great Britain Court of Chancery, John Scott Eldon (1827)
"... quaere. not think upon reflection, that, if the Commissioners commit the bankrupt for not answering to then* satisfaction, sitting in bankruptcy I could ..."

3. Silas Marner, the Weaver of Raveloe by George Eliot (1895)
"The garden was fenced with stones on two sides, but in front there was an open fence, through which the flowers shone with answering gladness, ..."

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