backlash

1. 1.

   come back to the originator of an action with an undesired effect

   “Your comments may backfire and cause you a lot of trouble”

   “the political movie backlashed on the Democrats”

   Synonymsbackfirerecoil

   Broaderhappen

Other forms of backlash

plural

backlashes·

past tense

backlashed·

present participle

backlashing·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about backlash

What does backlash mean?

backlash means "a movement back from an impact". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in backlash?

backlash has 2 syllables: bac-klash. The stress falls on "bac". In IPA it is /ˈbæˌklæʃ/.

What is another word for backlash?

Close synonyms include recoil, repercussion, rebound, backfire, recoil. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is backlash a common word?

backlash is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with backlash?

1 word rhymes with backlash. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.