countercurrent
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
- Direction
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
a stretch of turbulent water in a river or the sea caused by one current flowing into or across another current
Types & categories
- turbulence hypernym
Sense 2 noun
actions counter to the main group activity
political crosscurrents disrupted the conference
Types & categories
- strife hypernym
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| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | turbulence |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | strife |