repercussive

[ree-per-kuhs-iv, rep-er-]

adjective

1. causing repercussion; reverberating.

2. reflected; reverberated.

Other Word Forms

• repercussively adverb
• repercussiveness noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of repercussive¹

1350–1400; Middle English repercussif < Old French. See repercussion, -ive