The preceding articles by Piek Vossen (PV), Willy Martin (WM), and Marc van Campenoudt (MC) give a much more detailed account on their respective multilingual lexical database designs than the article by myself in this same journal (MJ). At the same time, they indicate some points of concern regarding the set-up of the SIM<it>u</it>LLDA system. Rather than responding directly to the points raised, this response elaborates on the two aspects of the SIM<it>u</it>LLDA system that seem to form the main sources of these issues: the status of the definitional attributes, and the practical usability of the system. The issues raised in the preceding articles will be explicitly addresses in the course of this elaboration. For even more details on these topics, see Janssen (2002).