Reaction

Noun

 * 1) An action or statement in response to a stimulus or other event
 * The announcement of the verdict brought a violent reaction.
 * You were in the courtroom. What is your reaction?
 * When I last tried to eat strawberries I had a terrible allergic reaction.
 * 1)  A transformation in which one or more substances is converted into another by combination or decomposition
 * In this reaction, the acid and base will neutralize each other, producing a salt.

Related terms

 * chain reaction
 * mixed reactions
 * react
 * reactant
 * reaction time
 * reactor

Adjectives for Reaction
energetic; painful; emotional; necessary; feverish; varied; premature; strong; disastrous; consumer; unequivocal; fatigued; violent; protective; inevitable; deep-seated; vigorous; unexpected; natural; photochemical; uncomfortable; passionate; intuitive; impulsive; instantaneous; chemical; antagonistic; romantic; infantile; chronic; physical; barbarous; pleasant; artificial; individual; astounding; logical; sympathetic; dramatic; blind; unromantic; sanguinary.

Verbs for Reaction
awaken—; control—; defeat—; determine —; emphasize—; evaluate—; excite—; experience—; foresee—; forestall—; induce—.

Thesaurus
Bourbonism, Toryism, acknowledgment, action and reaction, aeromotor, affect, affection, answer, answering, antagonism, antipathy, antiphon, assumption, attitude, back answer, back talk, backchat, backlash, backset, backsliding, backward motion, backward step, backwardness, backwash, brain disease, challenge, clashing, climate of opinion, clout, collision, combative reaction, comeback, common belief, community sentiment, compensation, complaint, conceit, concept, conception, conclusion, conflict, confutation, consensus gentium, conservatism, conservativeness, consideration, contradiction, contraposition, contrariety, counteraction, counterbalance, counterposition, counterworking, crack-up, crankiness, crotchetiness, defiance, demur, die-hardism, dispute, dissent, dissentience, echo, effect, emotion, emotional charge, emotional disorder, emotional instability, emotional shade, estimate, estimation, ethos, evasive reply, experience, extreme right, extreme right wing, extreme rightism, eye, feedback, feeling, feeling tone, force, foreboding, fractiousness, friction, functional nervous disorder, general belief, gut reaction, heartthrob, idea, impact, impress, impression, imprint, insanity, interference, jet power, jet propulsion, judgment, kick, know-nothingism, laissez-faireism, lapse, lights, maladjustment, manic-depressive psychosis, mark, melancholia, mental disorder, mental illness, mind, monarchism, mystique, negativism, nervous breakdown, nervous disorder, neurosis, nonconformity, noncooperation, notion, objection, observation, obstinacy, old school tie, opinion, opposition, opposure, oppugnance, oppugnancy, paranoia, passion, passive resistance, personal judgment, personality disorder, perverseness, point of view, popular belief, position, posture, power plant, presentiment, presumption, prevailing belief, print, problems in living, profound sense, protest, psychosis, public belief, public opinion, radical rightism, ram-jet propulsion, reaction propulsion, reactionariness, reactionaryism, ready reply, rebuff, recalcitrance, recalcitrancy, recalcitration, receipt, recession, recidivation, recidivism, reciprocation, recoil, reentry, reflex, refluence, reflux, refractoriness, regress, regression, rejoinder, relapse, reluctance, remonstrance, renitence, renitency, repartee, repellence, repellency, repercussion, replication, reply, repost, reprisal, repugnance, repulse, repulsion, rescript, rescription, resistance, resojet propulsion, respondence, response, responsion, responsory, retaliation, retort, retroaction, retrocession, retroflexion, retrogradation, retrogression, retrusion, return, revenge, reverberation, revolt, rightism, riposte, rocket power, rocket propulsion, rollback, royalism, schizophrenia, sensation, sense, sentiment, setback, short answer, sight, snappy comeback, social Darwinism, social maladjustment, stance, stand, standpattism, sternway, swimming upstream, theory, thinking, thought, throwback, turbojet propulsion, ultraconservatism, uncooperativeness, undercurrent, unprogressiveness, view, way of thinking, withstanding, witty reply, witty retort, yes-and-no answer

Etymology
reaction: < reactio:, from the verb reago:, from re-: + ago:. More at English,.

Pronunciation

 * {{SAMPA|/ri'{kS@n/}}

Translations

 * Afrikaans: reaksie
 * Albanian: reagim
 * Arabic:
 * Armenian:
 * Catalan: reacció
 * Chinese: 反應, 反应 (fǎnyìng)
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: reakcio, reago
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * German:
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian:, reakciója
 * Indonesian: reaksi
 * Italian:


 * Japanese: 反応 (はんのう, han’nō)
 * Korean: 반동 (bandong)
 * Malay: reaksi
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Punjabi:
 * Romanian: reacţia, reacţie
 * Russian: реакция (reáktsija)
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili: mmenyuko
 * Swedish:
 * Telugu: ప్రతిచర్య (praticharya), ప్రతిక్రియ (pratikriya); చర్య (charya) (in chemical reaction)
 * Thai: ปฏิกิริยา
 * Turkish: ,
 * Vietnamese: phản ứng


 * Armenian: փոխազդեցություն,
 * Catalan: reacció
 * Czech:


 * Finnish:
 * Icelandic:, hvarf

Anagrams

 * actioner
 * creation