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retribution - 20 thesaurus results
| Main Entry: | retribution |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | payback for another's action |
| Synonyms: | comeuppance, compensation, eye for an eye*, justice, punishment, reckoning, recompense, redress, repayment, reprisal, requital, retaliation, revenge, reward, satisfaction, vengeance, avengement, avenging, counterblow, just desserts, revanche, what for |
| Antonyms: | forgiveness, pardon, sympathy |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | comeuppance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | deserved fate |
| Synonyms: | due, just deserts, recompense, requital, retribution, due reward, just punishment |
| Main Entry: | deserts |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | what is due one |
| Synonyms: | comeuppance, compensation, deserving, discipline, due, merit, payment, penalty, punishment, recompense, requital, retribution, return, revenge, reward, right, chastening, chastisement, disciplining, get hers, get his, guerdon, lumps, meed, talion, what is coming to one, what one is asking for |
| Main Entry: | due |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | expected reward |
| Synonyms: | claim, comeuppance, compensation, deserts*, interest, need, payment, perquisite, prerogative, privilege, rate, recompense, repayment, reprisal, retaliation, retribution, revenge, right, satisfaction, title, vengeance, be in line for, entitlement, guerdon, merits, rights, what is coming to one |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | payoff |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | conclusion, climax |
| Synonyms: | adjustment, clincher*, consequence, culmination, day of reckoning*, finale, judgment, moment of truth*, outcome, pay, payment, punch line*, result, retribution, reward, settlement, upshot*, final reckoning |
| Antonyms: | introduction, start |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | penalty |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | punishment |
| Synonyms: | amends, cost, disadvantage, discipline, dues, fall, fine, forfeit, forfeiture, handicap, mortification, mulct, price, rap*, retribution, amercement, damages |
| Antonyms: | award, forgiveness, pardon, reward |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | penance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | reparation for wrong |
| Synonyms: | absolution, atonement, attrition, compensation, compunction, confession, contrition, forgiveness, hair shirt, mortification, penalty, penitence, punishment, remorse, repentance, retribution, rue, ruth, sorrow, suffering, expiation, purgation, remorsefulness, sackcloth and ashes, self-flagellation, shrift |
| Main Entry: | punishment |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | penalty |
| Synonyms: | abuse, beating, comeuppance, correction, deprivation, discipline, forfeit, forfeiture, gallows, hard work, infliction, maltreatment, mortification, mulct, ostracism, pain, penance, proof, purgatory, reparation, retribution, rod, sanction, short shrift*, slave labor*, suffering, torture, trial, unhappiness, amercement, castigation, chastening, chastisement, confiscation, disciplinary action, just desserts, lumps, punitive measures, rough treatment, sequestration, victimization, what for |
| Antonyms: | encouragement, exoneration, praise, protection, reward |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | redress |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | help, compensation |
| Synonyms: | aid, amendment, amends, assistance, atonement, change, correction, cure, ease, indemnity, justice, payment, recompense, reformation, rehabilitation, relief, remedy, remission, remodeling, renewal, repair, reparation, reprisal, requital, restitution, retribution, return, revision, reward, satisfaction, vengeance, balancing, conciliation, offsetting, quittance, rectification, reestablishment, reworking |
| Antonyms: | hurt, injury |
| Main Entry: | refund |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | returned money |
| Synonyms: | allowance, compensation, consolation, discharge, discount, kickback, payment, rebate, reimbursement, remuneration, repayment, restitution, retribution, return, satisfaction, settlement, acquittance, give-back, give-up, money back |
| Notes: | a rebate is a partial repayment, whereas a refund is a repayment of the total purchase price |
| Main Entry: | reparation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | compensation, amends |
| Synonyms: | adjustment, apology, atonement, dues, emolument, indemnity, payment, penance, recompense, redemption, redress, remuneration, renewal, repair, repayment, reprisal, requital, restitution, retribution, reward, satisfaction, settlement, damages, expiation, indemnification, making good, propitiation, quittance, squaring things |
| Antonyms: | extortion, penalty, theft |
| Main Entry: | reprisal |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | revenge |
| Synonyms: | eye for an eye*, requital, retaliation, retribution, vengeance, avengement, avenging, counterblow, counterstroke, paying back |
| Antonyms: | kindness, sympathy |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | revenge |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | retaliation for wrong, grievance |
| Synonyms: | animus, attack, eye for an eye*, fight, ill will, malevolence, measure for measure, rancor, repayment, reprisal, requital, retribution, return, satisfaction, sortie, tit for tat*, vengeance, avenging, avengment, counterblow, counterinsurgency, counterplay, getting even, implacability, ruthlessness, spitefulness, vengefulness, vindictiveness |
| Antonyms: | forgiveness, pardon, sympathy |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | reward |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | payment, prize |
| Synonyms: | accolade, award, benefit, bonus, bounty, comeuppance, compensation, crown*, cue, dividend, fringe benefit, gain, garland, gravy*, grease*, honor, just deserts*, merit, plum*, premium, profit, punishment, recompense, remuneration, repayment, requital, retribution, return, salve, tip, wages, carrot*, feather in cap, goodies, guerdon, meed, perks, strokes, sweetener |
| Antonyms: | penalty, punishment |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | vengeance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | retaliation for another's act |
| Synonyms: | eye for an eye*, repayment, reprisal, requital, retribution, return, revenge, tit for tat*, wrath, avengement, avenging, counterblow, evening of score, getting even, settling of score, vengefulness |
| Antonyms: | forgiveness, pardon |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | eye for an eye |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | retaliation for a wrong |
| Synonyms: | measure for measure, payback, reprisal, retaliation, retribution, revenge, tit for tat, vengeance, vindication, avenging, getting even, tooth for a tooth |
| Main Entry: | poetic justice |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | vice punished |
| Synonyms: | Nemesis, retribution, just punishment, punitive action, retributive justice, virtue rewarded, warrantability |
| Main Entry: | retaliation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | vengeance |
| Synonyms: | eye for an eye*, punishment, reprisal, retribution, revenge |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | visitation |
| Part of Speech: | noun2 |
| Definition: | affliction |
| Synonyms: | adversity, calamity, catastrophe, disaster, distress, ordeal, pain, punishment, retribution, trouble |
| Main Entry: | judgment |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | doom, fate |
| Synonyms: | affliction, correction, damnation, infliction, manifestation, misfortune, mortification, punishment, retribution, visitation, castigation, chastisement |
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