REPERCUSSION

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

A movement back from an impact

Synonyms:

backlash; rebound; recoil; repercussion

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Hypernyms ("repercussion" is a kind of...):

motion; movement (a natural event that involves a change in the position or location of something)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "repercussion"):

bounce; bouncing (rebounding from an impact (or series of impacts))

resilience; resiliency (an occurrence of rebounding or springing back)

carom; ricochet (a glancing rebound)

Meaning:

A remote or indirect consequence of some action

Example:

reverberations of the market crash were felt years later

Synonyms:

repercussion; reverberation

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural phenomena

Hypernyms ("repercussion" is a kind of...):

consequence; effect; event; issue; outcome; result; upshot (a phenomenon that follows and is caused by some previous phenomenon)

Derivation:

repercuss (cause repercussions; have an unwanted effect)