Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to reply
Participle: replied
Gerund: replying
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | reply |
| you | reply |
| he;she;it | replies |
| we | reply |
| you | reply |
| they | reply |
Perfect
| I | have replied |
| you | have replied |
| he;she;it | has replied |
| we | have replied |
| you | have replied |
| they | have replied |
Past
| I | replied |
| you | replied |
| he;she;it | replied |
| we | replied |
| you | replied |
| they | replied |
Pluperfect
| I | had replied |
| you | had replied |
| he;she;it | had replied |
| we | had replied |
| you | had replied |
| they | had replied |
Future
| I | will reply |
| you | will reply |
| he;she;it | will reply |
| we | will reply |
| you | will reply |
| they | will reply |
Future Perfect
| I | will have replied |
| you | will have replied |
| he;she;it | will have replied |
| we | will have replied |
| you | will have replied |
| they | will have replied |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | reply |
| you | reply |
| he;she;it | reply |
| we | reply |
| you | reply |
| they | reply |
Perfect
| I | have replied |
| you | have replied |
| he;she;it | have replied |
| we | have replied |
| you | have replied |
| they | have replied |
Imperfect
| I | replied |
| you | replied |
| he;she;it | replied |
| we | replied |
| you | replied |
| they | replied |
Pluperfect
| I | had replied |
| you | had replied |
| he;she;it | had replied |
| we | had replied |
| you | had replied |
| they | had replied |
Conditional
Present
| I | would reply |
| you | would reply |
| he;she;it | would reply |
| we | would reply |
| you | would reply |
| they | would reply |
Perfect
| I | would have replied |
| you | would have replied |
| he;she;it | would have replied |
| we | would have replied |
| you | would have replied |
| they | would have replied |
Imperative
| you | reply |
| we | Let's reply |
| you | reply |
Verbs conjugated like 'reply'
accompany,
acetify,
acidify,
adsignify,
affy,
alacrify,
alkalify,
ally,
amnesty,
amplify,
angelify,
anglicify,
anglify,
apology,
apply,
arefy,
argufy,
astony,
atrophy,
avowtry, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'reply'
rely,
repay,
replay,
apply,
beely,
belly,
deploy,
imply,
jelly,
medly,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
- to give written or spoken response
- answer, answer back, counter, react, rejoin, respond, retort, return
- answer
- response, retort, rejoinder, replication, riposte
Antonyms
- answer
- question, query, interrogation, summons
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. c.1385, from O.Fr.
replier "to reply, turn back," from L.
replicare "to reply, repeat," lit. "fold back," from
re- "back, again" +
plicare "to fold" (see ply). The noun is first recorded 1560. Mod.Fr.
répliquer is directly from L.L.
2. From Middle English replyen, replien, borrowed from Old French replier (“to reply”), from the Latin replicō, replicāre (“to fold back”) (in Late or Medieval Latin "to reply, repeat"), from re + plicō (“to fold”); the noun derives from the verb by nominalisation. Doublet of replicate and replica. See: Old French '
replier', Latin '
replico'.
Sample Sentences
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[...] respect they differ. You enumerate the heads of difference, one by one, and he says ‘Yes ? ’ (still interrogatively ) to each. Then he guesses that you do n't travel faster in England; and on your replying that you do, says ‘Yes ? ’ again (still interrogatively ), and it is quite evident, do n't believe it. After a long pause he remarks, partly to you, and partly to the knob on the top of his stick, [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] which may be hidden in a wretched bed. Beside it, sits a man: his elbows on his knees: his forehead hidden in his hands. ‘What ails that man ? ’ asks the foremost officer. ‘Fever, ’ he sullenly replies, without looking up. Conceive the fancies of a feverish brain, in such a place as this!
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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‘Any room, sir ? ’ cries the new passenger to the coachman. ‘Well, there 's room enough, ’ replies the coachman, without getting down, or even looking at him.
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] whistling, pleasantly, as he did so. He turned it over and over; surveyed it with a contempt no language can express; and inquired if I wished him to fix me a boot like that ? I courteously replied, that provided the boots were large enough, I would leave the rest to him; that if convenient and practicable, I should not object to their bearing some resemblance to the model then before him; but [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] he fell into his old attitude, and taking up the boot again, mused for some time. ‘And this, ’ he said, at last, ‘is an English boot, is it ? This is a London boot, eh ? ’ ‘That, sir, ’ I replied, ‘is a London boot. ’ He mused over it again, after the manner of Hamlet with Yorick 's skull; nodded his head, as who should say, ‘I pity the Institutions that led to the production of this boot ! [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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After some deliberation, the young master replied, “ Nathan, in your place, I think I should feel very much so, myself. You are free. ”
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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Here you are, lad. PETERSON ". And he replied: " An enemy has done this. " Then they said:
(Absolution)