Usually means: Responding sharply or cleverly; witty.
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  1. retortive: Collins English Dictionary
  2. retortive: Wordnik
  3. retortive: Wiktionary
  4. Retortive: Dictionary.com
  5. Retortive: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  6. retortive: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  7. Retortive: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  8. RETORTIVE: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  9. retortive: FreeDictionary.org
  10. Retortive: TheFreeDictionary.com

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▸ adjective:  Containing, or acting as, a retort.

Similar:
retaliatory, retributionary, retributive, retributory, redargutory, retropulsive, retinoid, retroflective, retractive, retrodictive, more...

Opposite:
non-retortive, unresponsive, passive, submissive

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Similar:
retaliatory, retributionary, retributive, retributory, redargutory, retropulsive, retinoid, retroflective, retractive, retrodictive, more...

Opposite:
non-retortive, unresponsive, passive, submissive



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