Defenition of the word backlash

• Defenition of the word backlash

  • A movement back from an impact.
  • have an unexpected and undesired effect; "Your comments may backfire and cause you a lot of trouble"
  • an adverse reaction to some political or social occurrence; "there was a backlash of intolerance"
  • a movement back from an impact
  • an adverse reaction to some political or social occurrence
  • come back to the originator of an action with an undesired effect

Synonyms for the word backlash

• • backfire
  • counterattack
  • criticism
  • hostile response
  • reaction
  • rebound
  • recoil
  • repercussion

Similar words in the backlash

• • backlash
  • backlash's
  • backlashes

Hyponyms for the word backlash

• • bounce
  • bouncing
  • carom
  • resilience
  • resiliency
  • ricochet
  • white backlash
  • whitelash

Hypernyms for the word backlash

• • come about
  • fall out
  • go on
  • hap
  • happen
  • motion
  • movement
  • occur
  • oppose
  • pass
  • pass off
  • react
  • reaction
  • take place

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