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repercussive

repercussive adjective: tending or able to repercuss; having the power of sending back; causing to reverberate.

Adjective

repercussive (comparative more repercussive, superlative most repercussive)

  1. Tending or able to repercuss; having the power of sending back; causing to reverberate.
    • Ye repercussive rocks! repeat the sound.1728, William Pattison, Verses on the Fifth of November
  2. Driven back; rebounding; reverberated.
    • Rages loud the repercussive roar.a. 1749 (date written), James Thomson, “Summer”, in The Seasons, London: […] A[ndrew] Millar, and sold by Thomas Cadell, […], published 1768, →OCLC
  3. (obsolete) Repellent; driving back.
    • Blood is stanched[…] by astringent and repercussive medicines.1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted...

Noun

repercussive (plural repercussives)

  1. (obsolete) A repellent.
    • rheums and defluxions, which if you apply a strong repercussive to the place affected , and do not take away the cause of the disease , will shift and fall straightways to another joint or placea. 1627 (date written), Francis [Bacon], “Considerations Touching a Warre with Spaine. […]”, in William Rawley, editor, Certaine Miscellany Works of the Right Honourable Francis Lo. Verulam, Viscount...

repercussive meaning in Tamil

repercussive in Tamil

பின்விளைவுடைய

Forms of repercussive

Adjective
comparativemore repercussive
superlativemost repercussive
Noun
pluralrepercussives

Words formed from repercussive

Questions about repercussive

What does repercussive mean?
Repercussive means tending or able to repercuss; having the power of sending back; causing to reverberate.
What is repercussive in Tamil?
Repercussive in Tamil is பின்விளைவுடைய. See Repercussive meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is repercussive?
Repercussive can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near repercussive in the dictionary

  1. repercussion
  2. repercussional
  3. repercussionary
  4. repercussionless
  5. repercussions
  6. repercussive
  7. repercussively
  8. repercussiveness
  9. repercussives
  10. reperesentative
  11. reperesentatives

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Adapted from Wiktionary: repercussive (page history and authors); repercussive (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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