Answer and Match

Answer

Answer verb - To be in agreement on every point.
Usage example: sorry, I haven't seen anyone answering to that description

Match is a synonym for answer in fit topic. In some cases you can use "Match" instead a verb "Answer".

Match

Match verb - To be the exact counterpart of.

Answer is a synonym for match. Sometimes you can use "Answer" instead a verb "Match".

Nearby Words: matched, matching, matcher

How words are described

best best answer best match
long long answer long match
exact exact answer exact match
better better answer better match
Other adjectives: typical, perfect, true, proper, straight, single, actual, real, big, bad, quick, final, official, next, last, previous.

Common collocations

name answer name match name
series answer series match series
time answer time match time
way answer way match way
Other words: points.

Both words in one sentence

  • Series / Match Game Even the Subtitler Is Stumped: In one game, Pat Morita writes an answer in Japanese and Gene demands the judges deem it a match or not.
  • Boyfriend doesn't want to take "no" for an answer, but she's saved by Fooker (who, unknown to her at the time, was a government operative and more than a match for the larger boyfriend).
  • When he evades the question, by implying Satomi could possibly be a match for even her, she bitchslaps him and tells him the answer to both, is "no".
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