backlash | | |
n. (event) | 1. backlash, rebound, recoil, repercussion | a movement back from an impact. |
| ~ motion, movement | a natural event that involves a change in the position or location of something. |
| ~ bouncing, bounce | rebounding from an impact (or series of impacts). |
| ~ resiliency, resilience | an occurrence of rebounding or springing back. |
| ~ carom, ricochet | a glancing rebound. |
n. (act) | 2. backlash | an adverse reaction to some political or social occurrence.; "there was a backlash of intolerance" |
| ~ reaction | doing something in opposition to another way of doing it that you don't like.; "his style of painting was a reaction against cubism" |
| ~ white backlash, whitelash | backlash by white racists against black civil rights advances. |
v. (social) | 3. backfire, backlash, recoil | come back to the originator of an action with an undesired effect.; "Your comments may backfire and cause you a lot of trouble" |
| ~ come about, hap, happen, occur, take place, go on, fall out, pass off, pass | come to pass.; "What is happening?"; "The meeting took place off without an incidence"; "Nothing occurred that seemed important" |
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