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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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