counterblast

noun

coun·​ter·​blast ˌkau̇n-tər-ˈblast 

variants or less commonly counter-blast

plural counterblasts also counter-blasts

: a forceful response or retaliation

especially : an emphatic response to or rebuttal of another's argument, criticism, etc.

… the uselessly combative essay he [Wordsworth] included in the 1815 edition of his poems, designed as a counterblast to Jeffrey and all his other critics …

—Adam Kirsch

There is reason to believe that the work on which Kant was engaged in the last years of his life was intended as a counter-blast to such critics.

—W. H. Walsh

Examples of counterblast in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

This sort of trolling offers no ideological counterblast to the progressive narrative that puts slavery and racial oppression at the center of the American experience. —Matthew Karp, Harper's Magazine, 22 June 2021

Word History

First Known Use

1567, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for counterblast

• chloroplast
• epiblast
• opencast
• overcast
• protoplast
• rebroadcast
• telecast
• trophoblast
• ultrafast
• unsurpassed
• aghast
• amassed