Synonyms for Backfire:

• n.

  •
  • crash,
  • bomb,
  • erupt,
  • miss,
  • detonate,
  • founder,
  • burst.
  •
  • flood,
  • idle,
  • fail,
  • burn up,
  • strike back,
  • fire,
  • engagement,
  • cut out,
  • grind.
  •
  • surprise.
  •backfire (noun)
  • boomerang.
  •backlash (noun)
  • re percussion,
  • counter-action,
  • counter actions,
  • retro actions,
  • re-percussions,
  • retro-actions,
  • counter action,
  • retro action,
  • counter-actions,
  • re percussions,
  • retro-action,
  • re-percussion.
  •defense (noun)
  • response,
  • wall,
  • aversion,
  • countermeasure,
  • argument,
  • moat,
  • security,
  • fortress,
  • barrier,
  • stronghold,
  • harbor,
  • defense,
  • rebuttal,
  • armor,
  • protection.
  •event (noun)
  • blowback.
  •explosion (noun)
  • ignitions,
  • firings,
  • ignition,
  • fulmination,
  • gust.
  •reaction (noun)
  • re agencies,
  • counter-poises,
  • kneejerks,
  • counter poise,
  • re-agencies,
  • re joinder,
  • re torts,
  • re-flections,
  • re tort,
  • counter balances,
  • re agency,
  • doubletakes,
  • re-flexes,
  • re-flection,
  • counter-poise,
  • double-takes,
  • re flex,
  • reagencies,
  • re joinders,
  • knee-jerks,
  • re-joinder,
  • re flection,
  • counter poises,
  • re-joinders,
  • re-tort,
  • doubletake,
  • re flections,
  • re action,
  • re-agency,
  • re-actions,
  • kneejerk,
  • re actions,
  • re-action,
  • counter balance,
  • re flexes,
  • re-torts,
  • re-flex.
  •recoil (noun)
  • bounce,
  • rebuff,
  • repercussion,
  • kickback.

• v.

  •change (verb)
  • backfire.
  •defend (verb)
  • counterattack,
  • answer,
  • uphold,
  • retort,
  • counter,
  • buffer,
  • save,
  • oppose,
  • reply,
  • rebut,
  • avert,
  • resist,
  • shield,
  • argue,
  • respond,
  • defend,
  • guard,
  • screen,
  • barricade,
  • police,
  • secure,
  • ward,
  • protect,
  • fend,
  • bar,
  • sustain,
  • shelter,
  • support,
  • safeguard,
  • return,
  • cover.
  •explode (verb)
  • dis charges,
  • dis-charge,
  • dis charged,
  • blows kingdom come,
  • dis charging,
  • dis charge,
  • dis-charging,
  • blew kingdom come,
  • dis-charges,
  • flaring up,
  • flamed up,
  • blew to kingdom come,
  • sets off,
  • blows to kingdom come,
  • blowing kingdom come,
  • flames up,
  • flared up,
  • flaming up,
  • kablooeyed,
  • blowing to kingdom come,
  • kablooeying,
  • kablooeys,
  • letted go,
  • blow kingdom come,
  • dis-charged.
  •have an opposite effect (verb)
  • disappoint,
  • bounce back.
  •misfire (verb)
  • fizzles out,
  • fizzes out,
  • mis-fired,
  • brake down,
  • go in smoke,
  • mis-fires,
  • mis firing,
  • coming nothing,
  • goes in smoke,
  • mis-fire,
  • went smoke,
  • came nothing,
  • fizzing out,
  • mis fire,
  • goes smoke,
  • coming to nothing,
  • went wrong,
  • broke down,
  • fizzed out,
  • mis carries,
  • fell short,
  • went up in smoke,
  • go up smoke,
  • go smoke,
  • mis carried,
  • mis-carrying,
  • going up smoke,
  • comes nothing,
  • mis fired,
  • goes up in smoke,
  • going in smoke,
  • going smoke,
  • falls short,
  • falls flat,
  • fell flat,
  • come nothing,
  • goes up smoke,
  • mis-carry,
  • mis-firing,
  • comes to nothing,
  • went in smoke,
  • went up smoke,
  • falling flat,
  • mis carrying,
  • breaks down,
  • came to nothing,
  • mis carry,
  • mis fires,
  • fizzled out,
  • fizzling out,
  • going up in smoke.
  •react (verb)
  • hadst a funny feeling,
  • re curred,
  • gave snappy comeback,
  • gives snappy comeback,
  • hast a funny feeling,
  • re-plied,
  • answering back,
  • gives a snappy comeback,
  • had a funny feeling,
  • re acted,
  • was affected,
  • has a funny feeling,
  • art affected,
  • answers back,
  • turns back,
  • having a funny feeling,
  • haddest funny feeling,
  • re-acted,
  • wast affected,
  • re plying,
  • giving snappy comeback,
  • hadst funny feeling,
  • re plied,
  • hast vibes,
  • re-plying,
  • is affected,
  • giving a snappy comeback,
  • re-turns,
  • re turning,
  • be-having,
  • be-have,
  • re-turned,
  • re-turning,
  • wert affected,
  • had funny feeling,
  • hath a funny feeling,
  • be having,
  • having vibes,
  • hath vibes,
  • re-acting,
  • re curring,
  • were affected,
  • having funny feeling,
  • talked back,
  • re-curred,
  • hath funny feeling,
  • be have,
  • haddest vibes,
  • re acting,
  • Re-turn,
  • has vibes,
  • haddest a funny feeling,
  • hast funny feeling,
  • talks back,
  • re turn,
  • has funny feeling,
  • being affected,
  • gave a snappy comeback,
  • hadst vibes,
  • re-curring,
  • give snappy comeback,
  • are affected,
  • re turns,
  • be-haves,
  • am affected,
  • be haves,
  • had vibes.
  •rebound (verb)
  • gotten back on one feet,
  • gets back on feet,
  • regained one's health,
  • gotten in shape,
  • gets well,
  • regains one health,
  • over come,
  • gets better,
  • getting in shape,
  • gets back on one feet,
  • regained health,
  • returns form,
  • got back ones feet,
  • gets back feet,
  • regains one's health,
  • getting back on feet,
  • got shape,
  • get back one feet,
  • getting back on one's feet,
  • over comes,
  • over coming,
  • pulled through,
  • gat back on feet,
  • making a comeback,
  • re bounds,
  • gotten back ones feet,
  • getting back on one feet,
  • getting back one's feet,
  • gotten back feet,
  • re-bounded,
  • re bound,
  • gotten well,
  • gotten back on one's feet,
  • regained ones health,
  • gat back one feet,
  • snaps back,
  • gotten back one feet,
  • got back on one's feet,
  • returning to form,
  • starts anew,
  • gets back one's feet,
  • gets back one feet,
  • makes comeback,
  • made a comeback,
  • got back one feet,
  • gotten back one's feet,
  • make comeback,
  • gat better,
  • gets shape,
  • re bounding,
  • got back on feet,
  • get shape,
  • regaining one health,
  • getting back on ones feet,
  • gat back on ones feet,
  • got back on one feet,
  • returns to form,
  • get back feet,
  • gat back on one feet,
  • regain one health,
  • get back one's feet,
  • getting back one feet,
  • gat shape,
  • regaining health,
  • returning form,
  • snapped back,
  • gets back ones feet,
  • gat back one's feet,
  • re-bound,
  • re-bounds,
  • gets back on ones feet,
  • made comeback,
  • returned to form,
  • gat back feet,
  • sprung back,
  • returned form,
  • regaining ones health,
  • gat back on one's feet,
  • makes a comeback,
  • started anew,
  • gat back ones feet,
  • got in shape,
  • got back feet,
  • regains health,
  • regaining one's health,
  • over-coming,
  • return form,
  • gotten back on feet,
  • getting shape,
  • regained one health,
  • re bounded,
  • got back one's feet,
  • get back on ones feet,
  • regains ones health,
  • gets back on one's feet,
  • springs back,
  • gotten shape,
  • gotten back on ones feet,
  • getting back feet,
  • sprang back,
  • over-comes,
  • re-bounding,
  • getting back ones feet,
  • get back ones feet,
  • get back on one feet,
  • gotten better,
  • gets in shape,
  • got back on ones feet,
  • gat well,
  • making comeback,
  • gat in shape,
  • regain ones health.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • crumble,
  • implode,
  • uptime,
  • disintegrate,
  • splutter,
  • fall down,
  • fall behind,
  • languish,
  • mesh,
  • malfunction,
  • self-destruct,
  • underperform,
  • totter,
  • collapse,
  • fizzle,
  • flop,
  • explode.
  •
  • fade,
  • misfire,
  • elude,
  • come apart,
  • unravel,
  • evade,
  • cycle,
  • kick over,
  • miscarry.
  •
  • lag,
  • atrophy,
  • rev,
  • sputter,
  • nosedive,
  • sour,
  • choke.
  •
  • mode,
  • break down,
  • ping,
  • turn over,
  • performance,
  • tank,
  • come down.
  •
  • go for,
  • pickup,
  • strike out,
  • knock.
  •
  • warm up,
  • stall.
  •
  • roll.
  •
  • sense,
  • jump.
  •
  • talk,
  • power.
  •
  • go.
  •
  • take.
  •misfire
  • come to nothing,
  • go up in smoke,
  • breaking down,
  • fizzle out,
  • fall flat,
  • fizz out,
  • fall short,
  • falling short,
  • going wrong,
  • go wrong,
  • goes wrong.
  •recoil
  • Stickled,
  • turns away,
  • stickle,
  • pulling back,
  • pulled back,
  • step back,
  • turn away,
  • Winced,
  • stickles,
  • turning away,
  • Stickling,
  • turned away,
  • Flinched,
  • pull back,
  • pulls back,
  • shy away.
  •Other relevant words:
  • gunfire,
  • flinch,
  • kick back,
  • warm-up,
  • report,
  • cringe,
  • crack,
  • flame,
  • cannon,
  • trench,
  • spring,
  • combustion,
  • throw stick,
  • counteract,
  • throwing stick,
  • blowup,
  • violate,
  • wildfire,
  • sea of flames,
  • funk,
  • come to grief,
  • cannon off,
  • crematory,
  • forest fire,
  • go off,
  • abort,
  • firebreak,
  • raging fire,
  • corposant,
  • cheerful fire,
  • flash,
  • burning ghat,
  • bang,
  • boom,
  • controvert,
  • shoot,
  • Counterstroke,
  • make noise,
  • detonation,
  • open fire,
  • blow up,
  • kick,
  • cease,
  • counterinsurgency,
  • counterrevolution,
  • blaze,
  • wrong,
  • fall through,
  • antidote,
  • reverberation,
  • resound,
  • counteraction,
  • fly back,
  • conflagration,
  • Ingle,
  • shrink,
  • Recalcitration,
  • fight,
  • touch off,
  • counterfire,
  • set fire,
  • counterblow,
  • blowout,
  • carom,
  • reaction,
  • contend,
  • resilience,
  • fulminate,
  • campfire,
  • comeback,
  • miscalculation,
  • squinch,
  • beacon fire,
  • funeral pyre,
  • Fulguration,
  • repulse,
  • repercuss,
  • burn down,
  • watch fire,
  • shot,
  • incendiarism,
  • bonfire,
  • balefire,
  • Contrecoup,
  • recalcitrate,
  • flare,
  • deceive,
  • belie,
  • prairie fire,
  • bust,
  • counterblast,
  • shatter,
  • frustrate,
  • wince,
  • discharge,
  • disagree,
  • beacon,
  • reverberate,
  • go amiss,
  • backlashing,
  • Ignis Fatuus,
  • flicker,
  • contradict,
  • quail,
  • blast,
  • bound back,
  • gunshot,
  • lay an egg,
  • contravene,
  • Counterstep,
  • redound,
  • resile,
  • pyre,
  • backblast,
  • bound.

Paraphrases for Backfire:

• Independent

  • Verb, base form
    fail, defeat.

Antonyms for Backfire:

• v.

  • have an opposite effect
    accomplish, succeed, achieve.
  • Other antonyms:
    flourish, thrive, prosper.

Homophones for Backfire:

• bock beer, buspar, base pair, buck fever, bugbear, boxberry, Bassia Scoparia, bishopry, bookfair, beekeeper, book fair, busbar, biosphere, bagpiper, bus fare, bookkeeper.

Hypernym for Backfire:

• n.

  • event
    back-blast, backblast.

Hyponym for Backfire:

• n.

  • event
    blowup, explosion, fire, detonation.

• v.

  • change
    burn, fire, burn down.
  • perception
    make noise, resound, noise.
  • social
    happen, pass, go on, come about, pass off, hap, fall out, take place, occur.