ANSWERING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does answering mean? 

• ANSWERING (adjective)
  The adjective ANSWERING has 1 sense:

1. replying

  Familiarity information: ANSWERING used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ANSWERING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Replying

Synonyms:

answering; respondent

Context example:

an answering smile

Similar:

responsive (readily reacting or replying to people or events or stimuli; showing emotion)

 Context examples 

There was always something in her modest voice that seemed to touch a chord within me, answering to that sound alone.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

He knew he was at last answering the call, running by the side of his wood brother toward the place from where the call surely came.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

Laurie certainly could not, and with an answering smile, he gave her his hand, saying heartily, "I promise, Mrs. Brooke!"

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

No answering greeting came back to me.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A third and answering cry arose, also to the rear and to the left of the second cry.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

“Yes,” said Holmes, answering the look rather than the words. “It is so. I know all about McCarthy.”

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

They were both pale; and there was an answering horror in their eyes.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

The application of molecular biology techniques in answering epidemiological questions.

(Molecular Epidemiology, NCI Thesaurus)

An answering call rung forth upon their left, and hard upon it two others from behind them.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

You must conceive that the mother is speaking, and that the forward young minx is answering.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)