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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
answer, argument, bucking, challenge, comeback, complete answer, confounding, confutation, contention, contradiction, contraposition, contraremonstrance, contravention, contraversion, controversion, counteraccusation, counteraction, counterblast, countercharge, counterclaim, counterreply, counterstatement, counterworking, crosscurrent, crossing, defense, demolition, demurrer, denial, discrediting, effective rejoinder, exception, head wind, impugnation, impugnment, negation, objection, opposing, opposition, opposure, oppugnation, overthrow, overthrowal, plea, pleading, pleadings, rebutment, rebutter, refusal, refutal, refutation, rejection, rejoinder, replication, reply, resistance, response, retaliation, retort, riposte, special demurrer, special pleading, squelch, standing against, statement of defense, subversion, surrebuttal, surrebutter, surrejoinder, traversal, undercurrent, undermining, upset, upsetting
Dictionary Results for rebuttal:
1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
rebuttal
    n 1: the speech act of refuting by offering a contrary
         contention or argument
    2: (law) a pleading by the defendant in reply to a plaintiff's
       surrejoinder [syn: rebutter, rebuttal]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Rebuttal \Re*but"tal\ (r[-e]*b[u^]t"tal), n. (Law)
   The giving of evidence on the part of a plaintiff to destroy
   the effect of evidence introduced by the defendant in the
   same suit.
   [1913 Webster]

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