repartée

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A swift, witty reply, especially one that is amusing.

   “Many persons must laugh when a great person or an acknowledged wit says a clever thing, such as a smart repartee, or a really good pun.”

2. isim A conversation marked by a series of witty retorts.
3. isim A skill in replying swiftly and wittily.

   “Another millstone around the NDP’s neck was the relative lack of seasoned parliamentarians in the government front bench who were skilled enough at repartee to take on the Tory veterans across the floor.”

4. fiil To reply with a repartee.

   “Aubrey speaks of him as 'incomparable at reparteeing, the bull that was bayted, his witt beinge most sparkling, when most set on and provoked.'”

5. fiil To have a repartee (a conversation marked by witty retorts or replies).

   “To see them together, friendly, reparteeing, chummy, would turn your stomach--Barbara so exquisite and high-born, and the man, his eyes full of evil fires, sitting like a great toad on the model's chair.”

6. isim Alternative form of repartee.

   “In what country but England could the epigrammatic repartées and spiritual anecdotes of a Jekyll have flourished?”

7. fiil Alternative form of repartee.

   “Yet from the long view of life / a certain depth emerges of continued growth / yielding some recompense to repartée / and the oft dichotomous personalization / becomes as fulfilling as a trampoline / to the boring tranquillity of sameness.”