| Main Entry: | come back |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | return |
Synonyms: |
come again, do better, re-enter, reappear, recover, recur, remigrate, resume, triumph |
Antonyms: |
depart, go, leave |
| Main Entry: | boomerang |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | backfire |
Synonyms: |
backlash, bounce back, come back, come home to roost, kick back, react, rebound, recoil, return, reverse, ricochet |
Antonyms: |
work |
| Main Entry: | get back |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | return |
Synonyms: |
arrive home, come back, come home, reappear, revert, revisit, turn back |
Antonyms: |
depart, go away, leave |
| Main Entry: | haunt |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | visit as a spirit |
Synonyms: |
agitate, agonize, annoy, appall, appear, be ever present, bedevil, beset, besiege, come back, disquiet, dwell, float, frighten, harass, harrow, hound, hover, infest, inhabit, intrude, madden, manifest, materialize, molest, nettle, obsess, overrun, permeate, pervade, pester, plague, possess, prey on, rack, reappear, recur, return, rise, spook, stay with, tease, terrify, terrorize, torment, trouble, vex, voodoo, walk, weigh on, worry |
| Main Entry: | impertinence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | boldness |
Synonyms: |
assurance, audacity, back talk, backchat, brazenness, cheek, chutzpah*, come-back, crust, disrespect, disrespectfulness, effrontery, forwardness, freshness, gall, guff, hardihood, impropriety, impudence, incivility, insolence, insolency, lip, nerve, pertness, presumption, rudeness, sass, smart mouth, wise guy, wisecrack |
Antonyms: |
humility, manners, politeness |
| Main Entry: | recur |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | happen again; repeat in one's mind |
Synonyms: |
be remembered, be repeated, come again, come and go, come back, crop up again, haunt thoughts, iterate, persist, reappear, recrudesce, reiterate, repeat, return, return to mind, revert, run through one's mind, turn back |
Antonyms: |
halt, stop |
| Main Entry: | reply |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | answer |
Synonyms: |
acknowledge, be in touch, come back, counter, echo, feedback, field the question, get back to, react, reciprocate, rejoin, respond, retaliate, retort, return, riposte, shoot back, squelch, top*, write back |
| Notes: | an answer is something said, written, or done in return; a reply is an answer that satisfies a detail in a question reply is generally used when the answer is understood to be verbal - either written or oral; response, by contrast, has a more general application and may be used for a variety of reactions respond suggests a quick reaction while reply implies a return commensurate with the original demand or question |
Antonyms: |
question, request |
| Main Entry: | respond |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | act in answer to something |
Synonyms: |
acknowledge, act in response, answer, answer back, be in touch with, behave, come back, come back at, come in, counter, feedback, feel for, field the question, get back to, get in touch, react, reciprocate, rejoin, reply, retort, return, talk back |
Antonyms: |
ask, question, request |
| Main Entry: | resume |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | begin again |
Synonyms: |
assume again, carry on, come back, continue, go on, go on with, keep on, keep up, occupy again, pick up, proceed, reassume, recapitulate, recommence, recoup, regain, reinstitute, reoccupy, reopen, repossess, restart, retake, return to, take back, take up |
Antonyms: |
finish, halt, stop |
| Main Entry: | return |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | go back, turn back |
Synonyms: |
back up, bounce back, circle back, come again, come back, double back, go again, hark back to, move back, react, reappear, rebound, recoil, reconsider, recrudesce, recur, reel back, reenter, reexamine, reoccur, repair, repeat, retire, retrace steps, retreat, revert, revisit, revolve, rotate, turn |
Antonyms: |
depart, leave |