357 synonyms found

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)

How to use "retribution" in context?

Paraphrases for retribution

Hyponyms for retribution

Synonyms for Retribution:

• n.

  • act (noun)
  • retribution.
  • atonement (noun)
  • appeasement,
  • satisfaction,
  • Recompensation,
  • amends,
  • redemption,
  • atonement,
  • restitution.
  • castigation (noun)
  • chewing outs.
  • comeuppance (noun)
  • due reward,
  • just punishment.
  • counteraction (noun)
  • neutralization,
  • counter-balance,
  • counterstrike,
  • counteroffensive,
  • counter-balances,
  • counter-offensive,
  • countermoves,
  • countermove,
  • neutralizations.
  • counterattack (noun)
  • counter attack,
  • counter attacks.
  • counterblow (noun)
  • counter blows,
  • counter-blows,
  • counter-blow.
  • deserts (noun)
  • 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.
  • due (noun)
  • re payment,
  • re payments,
  • be line for,
  • re-payments,
  • re-payment.
  • eye for an eye (noun)
  • tooth for a teeth,
  • tooth for teeth,
  • eye for eye,
  • tooth for tooth.
  • guerdon (noun)
  • satisfas.
  • judgment (noun)
  • mis fortune,
  • mis-fortunes,
  • mis fortunes.
  • Other relevant words: (noun)
  • 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.
  • payback for another's action (noun)
  • punishment,
  • retaliation,
  • what for,
  • counterblow,
  • repayment,
  • reckoning,
  • reprisal.
  • payment (noun)
  • fee,
  • wage,
  • incentive,
  • bankroll,
  • payroll,
  • expenditure,
  • settlement,
  • installment,
  • reimbursement,
  • salary,
  • disbursement,
  • discharge,
  • remuneration.
  • payoff (noun)
  • final reckoning.
  • penalty (noun)
  • discipline,
  • drawback,
  • discount,
  • penalty,
  • fine,
  • premium,
  • forfeiture,
  • encumbrance,
  • correction,
  • burden,
  • handicap,
  • chastisement,
  • deduction,
  • abatement.
  • penance (noun)
  • re-morses,
  • self-flagellations,
  • sackcloth and ash,
  • expiations,
  • sackcloth ashes,
  • re-morse,
  • selfflagellations,
  • sackcloth ash,
  • self flagellation,
  • selfflagellation,
  • re morse,
  • re morses,
  • self flagellations.
  • poetic justice (noun)
  • punitive action,
  • warrantability,
  • virtue rewarded.
  • punishment (noun)
  • crucifixion,
  • distress,
  • imprisonment,
  • castigation,
  • persecution,
  • incarceration,
  • verdict,
  • anguish,
  • price,
  • torture,
  • execution,
  • sentence,
  • agony,
  • confinement,
  • affliction.
  • reciprocation (noun)
  • a tooth for tooth,
  • inter changes,
  • inter-changes,
  • inter change,
  • a tooth for teeth,
  • a tooth for a teeth.
  • redress (noun)
  • 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.
  • refund (noun)
  • give backs,
  • dis charge,
  • re funds,
  • dis counts,
  • give-backs,
  • give-ups,
  • re-bates,
  • dis-charges,
  • re bates,
  • givebacks,
  • giveups,
  • re-fund,
  • re fund,
  • dis-counts,
  • re-bate,
  • dis charges,
  • giveup,
  • dis-charge,
  • give ups,
  • money backs,
  • re-funds,
  • re bate.
  • reparation (noun)
  • making goods,
  • squaring thing,
  • propitiations.
  • reprisal (noun)
  • counter stroke,
  • counter-strokes,
  • paying backs,
  • counter strokes,
  • avengings,
  • avengements.
  • requital (noun)
  • recaliation.
  • retaliation (noun)
  • exchange,
  • return,
  • countercharge,
  • counteraction,
  • response,
  • reciprocation,
  • retort.
  • revenge (noun)
  • ruthlessness,
  • sortie,
  • counterinsurgency,
  • avengment,
  • counterplay.
  • reward (noun)
  • sweetener,
  • Carrots,
  • carrot,
  • feather in cap,
  • Sweeteners.
  • vengeance (noun)
  • evening score,
  • settling score.

• v.

  • Other relevant words: (verb)
  • compensation,
  • desert.
  • revenge (verb)
  • comeback,
  • vendetta.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • counterattack,
  • tit for tat.
  •
  • measure for measure,
  • like for like,
  • an eye for an eye.
  •
  • lesson.
  • Other relevant words:
  • unpunished,
  • wages.
  • Other relevant words (noun):
  • 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?

Paraphrases for Retribution:

• Equivalence

  • Noun, singular or mass
    vengeance.

• Forward Entailment

  • Noun, singular or mass
    revenge.

• Independent

  • Noun, singular or mass
    consideration, honorarium, penalization, recrimination, repression, reward, victimisation, victimization, honoraria, counter-violence.

• Other Related

  • Noun, singular or mass
    chastisement, compensation, penalty, penance, punishment, remuneration, reprisal, retaliation, retaliatory, sanction, vendetta, vindictiveness, payback.

Hyponym for Retribution:

• n.

  • act
    correction, rectification.