side effect

2 definitions found

side effect - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  side effect
      n 1: a secondary and usually adverse effect of a drug or
           therapy; "severe headaches are one of the side effects of
           the drug"
      2: any adverse and unwanted secondary effect; "a strategy to
         contain the fallout from the accounting scandal" [syn: side   effect
         , fallout]

side effect - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  55 Moby Thesaurus words for "side effect":
     accession, accessory, accompaniment, addenda, addendum, additament,
     addition, additive, additory, additum, adjunct, adjuvant,
     afterbirth, afterclap, aftercrop, aftereffect, afterglow,
     aftergrowth, afterimage, aftermath, afterpain, aftertaste, annex,
     annexation, appanage, appendage, appendant, appurtenance,
     appurtenant, attachment, augment, augmentation, by-product, coda,
     complement, concomitant, continuation, corollary, effect,
     extension, extrapolation, fixture, increase, increment, offshoot,
     pendant, placenta, reaction, reinforcement, response, secundines,
     side issue, supplement, tailpiece, undergirding