backlash

English Thesaurus

1. an adverse reaction to some political or social occurrence (noun.act)

hypernym	:	reaction,
definition	:	doing something in opposition to another way of doing it that you don't like (noun.act)

hyponym	:	white backlash, whitelash,
definition	:	backlash by white racists against black civil rights advances (noun.act)

2. a movement back from an impact (noun.event)

hypernym	:	motion, movement,
definition	:	a natural event that involves a change in the position or location of something (noun.event)

hyponym	:	bounce, bouncing,
definition	:	rebounding from an impact (or series of impacts) (noun.event)

hyponym	:	resilience, resiliency,
definition	:	an occurrence of rebounding or springing back (noun.event)

hyponym	:	carom, ricochet,
definition	:	a glancing rebound (noun.event)

3. come back to the originator of an action with an undesired effect (verb.social)

hypernym	:	come about, fall out, go on, hap, happen, occur, pass, pass off, take place,
definition	:	come to pass (verb.change)

4. an adverse reaction to some political or social occurrence (noun.act)

derivation	:	backfire, backlash, recoil,
definition	:	come back to the originator of an action with an undesired effect (verb.social)

5. a movement back from an impact (noun.event)

derivation	:	bounce, bound, rebound, recoil, resile, reverberate, ricochet, spring, take a hop,
definition	:	spring back; spring away from an impact (verb.motion)

6. come back to the originator of an action with an undesired effect (verb.social)

derivation	:	backfire, boomerang,
definition	:	a miscalculation that recoils on its maker (noun.act)

derivation	:	backlash,
definition	:	an adverse reaction to some political or social occurrence (noun.act)

7. an adverse reaction to some political or social occurrence (noun.act)

derivation	:	backfire, backlash, recoil,
definition	:	come back to the originator of an action with an undesired effect (verb.social)

8. a movement back from an impact (noun.event)

derivation	:	bounce, bound, rebound, recoil, resile, reverberate, ricochet, spring, take a hop,
definition	:	spring back; spring away from an impact (verb.motion)

9. come back to the originator of an action with an undesired effect (verb.social)

derivation	:	backfire, boomerang,
definition	:	a miscalculation that recoils on its maker (noun.act)

derivation	:	backlash,
definition	:	an adverse reaction to some political or social occurrence (noun.act)