Synonym: comeback, counter, replication, retort, return, riposte. Similar words: rejoin, rejoice, rejoicing, cinder, hinder, cylinder, reminder, tinderbox. Meaning: [rɪ'dʒɔɪndə(r)] 
n. 1. a quick reply to a question or remark (especially a witty or critical one) 2. (law) a pleading made by a defendant in response to the plaintiff's replication.
n. 1. a quick reply to a question or remark (especially a witty or critical one) 2. (law) a pleading made by a defendant in response to the plaintiff's replication. 1. She always has a witty rejoinder to/for any question.
2. 'No!' was his curt rejoinder.
3. He tried to think of a snappy rejoinder.
4. Vic grunts, the distillation of an equally familiar rejoinder.
5. Sharpton has a funny rejoinder for every occasion.
6. Freedom of choice is a feeble rejoinder when the issue is global suicide.
7. Baumol etal. employ an aircraft example in their rejoinder to Weitzman.sentencedict.com
8. She always has a witty rejoinder to any question.
9. It brought a sharp rejoinder from the teacher.
10. In rejoinder, the abolitionists question the superior deterrent value of the death penalty.
11. Eliot concurred; but he still felt that sometimes it was necessary to write a fairly sharp rejoinder.
12. It would be unfair to leave the discussion of the later Wordsworth without a rejoinder to what is usually said.
13. When I called him to object, the reporter said that his editors intended to invite me to write a rejoinder.
14. Speech implies other speech, either preceding it, or as an anticipated rejoinder.
15. Apart the Revolution, which , taken as a whole, is an immense human, alas ! a rejoinder.
16. 'I neither want any thanks, nor merit any,'was the careless rejoinder.
17. And the "oh" with which he precedes the imagined rejoinder, incidentally, is classically British: the joke doesn't work in a country without a tradition of panto.
18. There was a good reason that the social critic Hutchins Hapgood wrote a rejoinder to Riis's "How the Other Half Lives," which he entitled "The Spirit of the Ghetto.
More similar words: rejoin, rejoice, rejoicing, cinder, hinder, cylinder, reminder, tinderbox, remainder, kindergarten, bill of attainder, join, joint, join in, enjoin, adjoin, join up, joined, conjoin, joining, disjoint, conjoined, adjoining, disjointed, independent, independency, independence, independently, adjoining room, joint committee.