|
  • Search Results
  • Advanced Search
  • List Builder
  • Random Word

backlash

DEFINITIONS OF: backlash

1

n a movement back from an impact

Synonyms:
rebound, recoil, repercussion
Types:
bounce, bouncing
rebounding from an impact (or series of impacts)
resilience, resiliency
an occurrence of rebounding or springing back
carom, ricochet
a glancing rebound
Type of:
motion, movement
a natural event that involves a change in the position or location of something

n an adverse reaction to some political or social occurrence

“there was a backlash of intolerance”
Types:
white backlash, whitelash
backlash by white racists against black civil rights advances
Type of:
reaction
doing something in opposition to another way of doing it that you don't like

v come back to the originator of an action with an undesired effect

Synonyms:
backfire, recoil
Type of:
come about, fall out, go on, hap, happen, occur, pass, pass off, take place
come to pass
Launch
WORD FAMILY
USAGE EXAMPLES