respondent

• POS: Adjective, Noun
• HYPHEN: re=spond=ent

CIDE DICTIONARY

respondent, a. [L. respondens, p. pr. of respondere.].

 Disposed or expected to respond; answering; according; corresponding.  [1913 Webster]
"Wealth respondent to payment and contributions."  [1913 Webster]

respondent, n. [Cf. F. répondant.].

 One who responds. It corresponds in general to defendant.  I. Watts.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

respondent, n. & adj.
--n.
1 a defendant, esp. in an appeal or divorce case.
2 a person who makes an answer or defends an argument etc.
--adj.
1 making answer.
2 (foll. by to) responsive.
3 in the position of defendant.

THESAURUS

respondent

accused, answerer, answering, antiphonal, confutative, correspondent, defendant, echoic, echoing, libelee, prisoner, reacting, reactionary, reactive, reechoing, reflex, reflexive, refluent, refutative, rejoining, replier, replying, responder, responding, responser, responsive, retroactionary, retroactive, returning, revulsive, suspect

ROGET THESAURUS

respondent

Accusation

N accusation, charge, imputation, slur, inculpation, exprobration, delation, crimination, incrimination, accrimination, recrimination, tu quoque argument, invective, denunciation, denouncement, libel, challenge, citation, arraignment, impeachment, appeachment, indictment, bill of indictment, true bill, lawsuit, condemnation, gravamen of a charge, head and front of one's offending, argumentum ad hominem, scandal, scandalum magnatum, accuser, prosecutor, plaintiff, relator, informer, appellant, accused, defendant, prisoner, perpetrator, panel, respondent, litigant, accusing, accusatory, accusative, imputative, denunciatory, recriminatory, criminatory, accused, suspected, under suspicion, under a cloud, under surveillance, in custody, in detention, in the lockup, in the watch house, in the house of detention, accusable, imputable, indefensible, inexcusable, unpardonable, unjustifiable, vicious, Int, look at home, tu quoque, the breath of accusation kills an innocent name, thou can'st not say I did it.

Answer

N answer, response, reply, replication, riposte, rejoinder, surrejoinder, rebutter, surrebutter, retort, repartee, rescript, rescription, antiphon, antiphony, acknowledgment, password, echo, counter statement, discovery, solution, rationale, clue, Oedipus, oracle, return, answering, responsive, respondent, conclusive, because, on the scent, on the right scent, Int, eureka!.