| Main Entry: | vengeance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | retaliation for another's act |
Synonyms: |
avengement, avenging, counterblow, evening of score, eye for an eye, getting even, repayment, reprisal, requital, retribution, return, revenge, settling of score, tit for tat, vengefulness, wrath |
Antonyms: |
forgiveness, pardon |
| Main Entry: | due |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | expected reward |
Synonyms: |
be in line for, claim, comeuppance, compensation, deserts, entitlement, guerdon, interest, merits, need, payment, perquisite, prerogative, privilege, rate, recompense, repayment, reprisal, retaliation, retribution, revenge, right, rights, satisfaction, title, vengeance, what is coming to one |
| Main Entry: | rancor |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | bitterness, hatefulness |
Synonyms: |
acerbity, acrimony, animosity, animus, antagonism, antipathy, aversion, bad blood, bile, dudgeon, enmity, grudge, hardness of heart, harshness, hate, hatred, hostility, ill feeling, ill will, malevolence, malice, malignity, mordacity, pique, resentfulness, resentment, retaliation, revengefulness, ruthlessness, spite, spitefulness, spleen, umbrage, uncharitableness, unfriendliness, variance, vengeance, vengefulness, venom, vindictiveness, virulence |
Antonyms: |
kindness, love, respect, sympathy |
| Main Entry: | redress |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | help, compensation |
Synonyms: |
aid, amendment, amends, assistance, atonement, balancing, change, conciliation, correction, cure, ease, indemnity, justice, offsetting, payment, quittance, recompense, rectification, reestablishment, reformation, rehabilitation, relief, remedy, remission, remodeling, renewal, repair, reparation, reprisal, requital, restitution, retribution, return, revision, reward, reworking, satisfaction, vengeance |
Antonyms: |
hurt, injury |
| Main Entry: | reprisal |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | revenge |
Synonyms: |
avengement, avenging, counterblow, counterstroke, eye for an eye, paying back, requital, retaliation, retribution, vengeance |
Antonyms: |
kindness, sympathy |
| Main Entry: | retribution |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | payback for another's action |
Synonyms: |
avengement, avenging, comeuppance, compensation, counterblow, eye for an eye, just desserts, justice, punishment, reckoning, recompense, redress, repayment, reprisal, requital, retaliation, revanche, revenge, reward, satisfaction, vengeance, what for |
Antonyms: |
forgiveness, pardon, sympathy |
| Main Entry: | revenge |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | retaliation for wrong, grievance |
Synonyms: |
animus, attack, avenging, avengment, counterblow, counterinsurgency, counterplay, eye for an eye, fight, getting even, ill will, implacability, malevolence, measure for measure, rancor, repayment, reprisal, requital, retribution, return, ruthlessness, satisfaction, sortie, spitefulness, tit for tat, vengeance, vengefulness, vindictiveness |
| Notes: | revenge is personal and justice is societal |
Antonyms: |
forgiveness, pardon, sympathy |
| Main Entry: | spite |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | hateful feeling |
Synonyms: |
animosity, antipathy, bad blood, contempt, despite, enmity, gall, grudge, harsh feeling, hate, hatred, ill will, malevolence, malice, maliciousness, malignity, peeve, pique, rancor, resentment, revenge, spitefulness, spleen, umbrage, vengeance, vengefulness, venom, vindictiveness |
Antonyms: |
liking, love, loving |
| Main Entry: | wrath |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | extreme anger |
Synonyms: |
acrimony, asperity, boiling point, conniption, dander, displeasure, exasperation, flare-up, fury, hate, hatefulness, huff, indignation, ire, irritation, mad, madness, offense, passion, rage, resentment, rise, stew, storm, temper, vengeance |
Antonyms: |
happiness, love |
| Main Entry: | eye for an eye |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | retaliation for a wrong |
Synonyms: |
avenging, getting even, measure for measure, payback, reprisal, retaliation, retribution, revenge, tit for tat, tooth for a tooth, vengeance, vindication |