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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (2)

1. a secondary and usually adverse effect of a drug or therapy;
- Example: "severe headaches are one of the side effects of the drug"

2. any adverse and unwanted secondary effect;
- Example: "a strategy to contain the fallout from the accounting scandal"
[syn: side effect, fallout]


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

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]
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