Definition of counterblast
plural counterblasts
or less commonly 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
