Scrabble & Words with friends points
- answers is a valid Scrabble US word with a point value of 10
- answers is a valid Scrabble UK word with a point value of 10
- answers is a valid Words with friends word with a point value of 11
Definition of answers
- react verbally (verb)
Examples
- She didn't want to answer
- answer the question
- We answered that we would accept the invitation
Synonyms
- reply
- respond
- be sufficient; be adequate, either in quality or quantity (verb)
Examples
- A few words would answer
Synonyms
- do
- serve
- suffice
- a statement that solves a problem or explains how to solve the problem (noun)
Examples
- the answers were in the back of the book
Synonyms
- resolution
- result
- solution
- solvent
- a statement (either spoken or written) that is made to reply to a question or request or criticism or accusation (noun)
Examples
- I waited several days for his answer
Synonyms
- reply
- response
- understand the meaning of (verb)
Examples
- The question concerning the meaning of life cannot be answered
Synonyms
- resolve
- a nonverbal reaction (noun)
Examples
- his answer to any problem was to get drunk
- their answer was to sue me
- be liable or accountable (verb)
Examples
- She must answer for her actions
- be satisfactory for; meet the requirements of or serve the purpose of (verb)
Examples
- This may answer her needs
- give a defence or refutation of (a charge) or in (an argument) (verb)
Examples
- The defendant answered to all the charges of the prosecution
- give the correct answer or solution to (verb)
Examples
- answer a question
- answer the riddle
- match or correspond (verb)
Examples
- The drawing of the suspect answers to the description the victim gave
- react to a stimulus or command (verb)
Examples
- The steering of my new car answers to the slightest touch
- respond to a signal (verb)
Examples
- answer the door
- answer the telephone
- the principal pleading by the defendant in response to plaintiff's complaint; in criminal law it consists of the defendant's plea of `guilty' or `not guilty' (or nolo contendere); in civil law it must contain denials of all allegations in the plaintiff's complaint that the defendant hopes to controvert and it can contain affirmative defenses or counterclaims (noun)
- the speech act of replying to a question (noun)
See definition of answers in Merriam Webster