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autoreply

autoreply is the alternative spelling of auto-reply.

Meaning of auto-reply

Noun

auto-reply (countable and uncountable, plural auto-replies)

  1. (uncountable, email) A feature in e-mail software that sends automatic replies, used for instance when the recipient of a message is on holiday.
    • I'd like to be able to disable auto-reply for certain users.
  2. (countable, email) A message sent by this means.
    • I sent an email to the school secretary, only to receive an auto-reply.

Forms of autoreply

pluralautoreplies

Origin of autoreply

From auto- + reply.

Questions about autoreply

What is autoreply the alternative spelling of?
Autoreply is the alternative spelling of auto-reply.

Words near autoreply in the dictionary

  1. autorenews
  2. autorepeat
  3. autoreplicate
  4. autoreplicated
  5. autoreplies
  6. autoreply
  7. autorepress
  8. autorepressed
  9. autorepresses
  10. autorepressing
  11. autorepression

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Adapted from Wiktionary: autoreply (page history and authors); auto-reply (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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