backlash
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
a movement back from an impact
Types & categories
- motion hypernym
- bouncing hyponym
- resiliency hyponym
- carom hyponym
Related & opposite
- bounce derivation
Sense 2 verb
come back to the originator of an action with an undesired effect
Your comments may backfire and cause you a lot of trouble
Types & categories
- hap hypernym
Related & opposite
Sense 3 noun
an adverse reaction to some political or social occurrence
there was a backlash of intolerance
Types & categories
Related & opposite
- backfire derivation
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | bounce |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | motion |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | bouncing |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | resiliency |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | carom |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | boomerang |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | backlash |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | hap |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | backfire |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | reaction |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | whitelash |