What is another word for retribution?
Pronunciation:
[ ɹˌɛtɹɪbjˈuːʃən], [ ɹˌɛtɹɪbjˈuːʃən], [ ɹ_ˌɛ_t_ɹ_ɪ_b_j_ˈuː_ʃ_ə_n]
Related words: revenge, justice, vengeance, wrath, eye for an eye
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Similar words for retribution:
- act (noun)
- atonement (noun)
- castigation (noun)
- comeuppance (noun)
- counteraction (noun)
- counterattack (noun)
- counterblow (noun)
- deserts (noun)
- due (noun)
- eye for an eye (noun)
- guerdon (noun)
- judgment (noun)
- other relevant words (noun)
- payback for another's action (noun)
- payment (noun)
- payoff (noun)
- penalty (noun)
- penance (noun)
- poetic justice (noun)
- punishment (noun)
- reciprocation (noun)
- redress (noun)
- refund (noun)
- reparation (noun)
- reprisal (noun)
- requital (noun)
- retaliation (noun)
- revenge (noun)
- reward (noun)
- vengeance (noun)
- other relevant words (verb)
- revenge (verb)
- other synonyms
- other relevant words
- other relevant words (noun)
Synonyms for Retribution:
n.
• act (noun) • atonement (noun) • castigation (noun) • comeuppance (noun) • counteraction (noun)- neutralization,
- counter-balance,
- counterstrike,
- counteroffensive,
- counter-balances,
- counter-offensive,
- countermoves,
- countermove,
- neutralizations.
- de-serving,
- what is coming one,
- re-turns,
- deservings,
- talions,
- de-sert,
- Re-turn,
- de sert,
- chastenings,
- what one is asking fors,
- re turn,
- what is asking fors,
- re turns,
- de servings,
- what is asking for,
- de serving,
- get hi,
- disciplinings,
- get her,
- de-servings.
- reparation,
- self-flagellation,
- meed,
- Avengement,
- rectification,
- give-back,
- vengeance,
- making good,
- guerdon,
- give-up,
- tooth for a tooth,
- paying back,
- shrift,
- re-formation,
- giveback,
- acquittance,
- payoff,
- propitiation,
- be in line for,
- redress,
- counter-attacks,
- Counter-stroke,
- Disciplining,
- satisfa,
- offsetting,
- judgment,
- acquittances,
- deserts,
- revenge,
- reward,
- rectifications,
- entitlements,
- counterstrokes,
- give back,
- get hers,
- counter-attack,
- payment,
- meeds,
- comeuppance,
- what one is asking for,
- eye for an eye,
- Reestablishment,
- money back,
- settling of score,
- get his,
- poetic justice,
- Talion,
- due,
- Counterstroke,
- reworkings,
- shrifts,
- sackcloth and ashes,
- counter blow,
- balancings,
- refund,
- inter-change,
- squaring things,
- what is coming to one,
- evening of score,
- entitlement,
- penance,
- give up,
- re-establishment,
- expiation,
- a tooth for a tooth.
- fee,
- wage,
- incentive,
- bankroll,
- payroll,
- expenditure,
- settlement,
- installment,
- reimbursement,
- salary,
- disbursement,
- discharge,
- remuneration.
- discipline,
- drawback,
- discount,
- penalty,
- fine,
- premium,
- forfeiture,
- encumbrance,
- correction,
- burden,
- handicap,
- chastisement,
- deduction,
- abatement.
- re-morses,
- self-flagellations,
- sackcloth and ash,
- expiations,
- sackcloth ashes,
- re-morse,
- selfflagellations,
- sackcloth ash,
- self flagellation,
- selfflagellation,
- re morse,
- re morses,
- self flagellations.
- crucifixion,
- distress,
- imprisonment,
- castigation,
- persecution,
- incarceration,
- verdict,
- anguish,
- price,
- torture,
- execution,
- sentence,
- agony,
- confinement,
- affliction.
- a tooth for tooth,
- inter changes,
- inter-changes,
- inter change,
- a tooth for teeth,
- a tooth for a teeth.
- re pairs,
- re-pairs,
- re-missions,
- re establishments,
- re dress,
- re-lief,
- re-habilitations,
- re-formations,
- re lief,
- re-modelings,
- re-visions,
- re vision,
- re-mission,
- re-establishments,
- re modeling,
- re workings,
- re-working,
- re modelings,
- re habilitation,
- offsettings,
- re-dresses,
- re habilitations,
- re-pair,
- re working,
- re-dress,
- re-modeling,
- re-vision,
- re formation,
- re formations,
- re-habilitation,
- re dresses,
- re mission,
- re establishment,
- reestablishments,
- re visions,
- re-workings,
- re pair,
- re missions.
v.
• Other relevant words: (verb) • revenge (verb)Other synonyms:
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•
- lesson.
- nemesis,
- chastening,
- pains and penalties,
- vindictiveness,
- requital,
- smart money,
- consideration,
- answer,
- doom,
- honorarium,
- ban,
- indemnification,
- recompense,
- infliction,
- determination,
- indemnity,
- pay,
- reciprocity,
- what is due,
- sop,
- Implacability,
- tribulation,
- trial,
- judgement,
- counter-project,
- acknowledgment,
- spitefulness,
- visitation,
- quid pro quo,
- salvage,
- payback,
- damages,
- getting even,
- avenge,
- wergild,
- vindication,
- justice,
- avenging,
- just deserts,
- Punition,
- Solatium,
- lex talionis,
- counterplot,
- Requitement,
- quittance,
- right,
- FINAL SETTLEMENT,
- just desserts,
- penology,
- sanction,
- retributive justice,
- thunderbolt,
- ferule,
- scourge,
- pain,
- Weregild,
- what is merited,
- revanche,
- pains,
- Squaring,
- decision.
How to use "Retribution" in context?
Retribution is a state of mind that leads to the satisfaction of anger and resentment when someone is hurt, wronged, or thwarted in his or her goals. It can also refer to the practice of taking such action as a response to wrongs done.
There is a natural human instinct to punish those who have harmed or wronged us. This is often done in the form of revenge, retribution, or punishment. The idea of retribution is that those who have acted unfairly or criminally should suffer some sort of harm in return for their actions.
Paraphrases for Retribution:
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Equivalence
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Noun, singular or mass
vengeance.
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Noun, singular or mass
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Forward Entailment
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Noun, singular or mass
revenge.
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Noun, singular or mass
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Independent
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Noun, singular or mass
consideration, honorarium, penalization, recrimination, repression, reward, victimisation, victimization, honoraria, counter-violence.
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Noun, singular or mass
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Other Related
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Noun, singular or mass
chastisement, compensation, penalty, penance, punishment, remuneration, reprisal, retaliation, retaliatory, sanction, vendetta, vindictiveness, payback.
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Noun, singular or mass
Hyponym for Retribution:
n.
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act
correction, rectification.
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act
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