Synonyms for vengeance
ˈvɛn dʒənsvengeance

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1. vengeancenoun

   Synonyms:
   retribution, retaliation, revenge, reprisal

   Antonyms:
   reconciliation

2. vengeancenoun

   Revenge taken for an insult, injury, or other wrong.

   Synonyms:
   retaliation, revenge, retribution, reprisal

   Antonyms:
   reconciliation

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:3.7 / 3 votes

1. vengeance

   Revenge is the act of making return for an injury done to oneself by doing injury to another person. Retaliation and revenge are personal and often bitter. Retaliation may be partial; revenge is meant to be complete, and may be excessive. Vengeance, which once meant an indignant vindication of justice, now signifies the most furious and unsparing revenge. Revenge emphasizes more the personal injury in return for which it is inflicted, vengeance the ill desert of those upon whom it is inflicted. A requital is strictly an even return, such as to quit one of obligation for what has been received, and even if poor or unworthy is given as complete and adequate. Avenging and retribution give a solemn sense of exact justice, avenging being more personal in its infliction, whether by God or man, and retribution the impersonal visitation of the doom of righteous law. Compare AVENGE; HATRED; REQUITE.

   Synonyms:
   avenging, requital, retaliation, retribution, revenge

   Antonyms:
   compassion, excuse, forgiveness, grace, mercy, pardon, pardon, pity, reconciliation

   Preposition:
   To take revenge upon the enemy, for the injury.

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:1.0 / 1 vote

1. vengeance

   Synonyms:
   retribution, retaliation, revenge

   Antonyms:
   forgiveness, pardon, condonation, amnesty, grace, remission, absolution, oblivion, indulgence, reprieve

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:1.0 / 1 vote

1. vengeance, retribution, paybacknoun

   the act of taking revenge (harming someone in retaliation for something harmful that they have done) especially in the next life

   "Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord"--Romans 12:19; "For vengeance I would do nothing. This nation is too great to look for mere revenge"--James Garfield; "he swore vengeance on the man who betrayed him"; "the swiftness of divine retribution"

   Synonyms:
   requital, payback, retribution

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1. • Retaliation

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:1.0 / 1 vote

1. vengeancenoun

   Synonyms:
   avengement, retribution

2. vengeancenoun

   Synonyms:
   revenge, retaliation

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1. vengeancenoun

   Synonyms:
   retribution, avengement, revenge, nemesis, retaliation

   Associated words:
   wreak

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1. List of paraphrases for "vengeance":

   revenge, vendetta, retribution, retaliation, vindictiveness, payback, retaliatory, reprisal

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How to use vengeance in a sentence?

1. Cindy Shelton:

   Milk increases in volume that third to fifth day and it does it with a vengeance.

2. Phil Robertson:

   I hope that people would quit accusing each other, we’re all guilty of sin. We all make mistakes. Therefore, you have no excuse to pass judgment on someone else. That’s what people do. They find a mistake you made when you were 18 years old or something you said on the internet long ago. Then they go after you with a vengeance. You’re condemning yourself by passing judgment on others. Do you think you’ll escape God’s judgment? In a culture of accusations, shame and condemnation, I’m just trying to speak out about the word of God… Just forgive each other and move on for crying out loud.

3. Fatima Bhutto:

   There was no moment of reflection, no introspection, only a knee-jerk call for vengeance, in Pakistan, blood will always have blood.

4. Niccolo Machiavelli:

   If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.

5. Jim Bridenstine:

   The American space program is coming back. It's coming back with a vengeance, we all love Apollo. But in the Artemis program we go to the moon sustainably, and this time we have a very diverse, highly qualified astronaut corps that includes women.