| 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: | comeuppance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | deserved fate |
Synonyms: |
due, due reward, just deserts, just punishment, recompense, requital, retribution |
| Main Entry: | deserts |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | what is due one |
Synonyms: |
chastening, chastisement, comeuppance, compensation, deserving, discipline, disciplining, due, get hers, get his, guerdon, lumps, meed, merit, payment, penalty, punishment, recompense, requital, retribution, return, revenge, reward, right, talion, what is coming to one, what one is asking for |
| 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: | judgment |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | doom, fate |
Synonyms: |
affliction, castigation, chastisement, correction, damnation, infliction, manifestation, misfortune, mortification, punishment, retribution, visitation |
| Notes: | judgment is the U.S. preferred spelling while judgement is the British preferred spelling |
| Main Entry: | payoff |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | conclusion, climax |
Synonyms: |
adjustment, clincher, consequence, culmination, day of reckoning, final reckoning, finale, judgment, moment of truth, outcome, pay, payment, punch line, result, retribution, reward, settlement, upshot |
Antonyms: |
introduction, start |
| Main Entry: | penalty |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | punishment |
Synonyms: |
amends, amercement, cost, damages, disadvantage, discipline, dues, fall, fine, forfeit, forfeiture, handicap, mortification, mulct, price, rap, retribution |
Antonyms: |
award, forgiveness, pardon, reward |
| Main Entry: | penance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | reparation for wrong |
Synonyms: |
absolution, atonement, attrition, compensation, compunction, confession, contrition, expiation, forgiveness, hair shirt, mortification, penalty, penitence, punishment, purgation, remorse, remorsefulness, repentance, retribution, rue, ruth, sackcloth and ashes, self-flagellation, shrift, sorrow, suffering |
| Main Entry: | punishment |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | penalty |
Synonyms: |
abuse, amercement, beating, castigation, chastening, chastisement, comeuppance, confiscation, correction, deprivation, disciplinary action, discipline, forfeit, forfeiture, gallows, hard work, infliction, just desserts, lumps, maltreatment, mortification, mulct, ostracism, pain, penance, proof, punitive measures, purgatory, reparation, retribution, rod, rough treatment, sanction, sequestration, short shrift, slave labor, suffering, torture, trial, unhappiness, 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, 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 |