Revenge

Synonyms for revenge
noun retaliation for wrong, grievance

retribution
attack
vengeance
reprisal
counterblow
return
malevolence

sortie
vengefulness
fight
satisfaction
spitefulness
requital
repayment

vindictiveness
rancor
animus
eye for an eye
ill will
measure for measure
tit for tat

implacability
counterinsurgency
avenging
ruthlessness
counterplay
avengment
getting even

Antonyms for revenge

forgiveness

pardon

sympathy

Synonyms
verb retaliate for wrong, grievance

get back at
vindicate
avenge
square
return
get
punish
fix
retort
reciprocate

repay
score
redress
requite
defend
match
justify
fight back
get even
kick back

be out for blood
even the score
give comeuppance
give just desserts
hit back
make reprisal
pay back
pay back in spades
pay off
return the compliment

settle up
settle with
stick it to
take an eye for an eye
turn the tables on
venge
fix one’s wagon

Antonyms

request
surrender
deny
refuse

forgive
pardon
sympathize
depart

leave
take
fail
lose

Concept Thesaurus for word revenge
2. Retrospective Sympathetic Affections
Synonyms – noun

revenge
avengeance
blood for blood retaliation [more]
implacability
vindicator

revengement
sweet revenge
day of reckoning.
malevolence
Nemesis

vengeance
vendetta
rancor
ruthlessness
Eumenides.

avengement
death feud
vindictiveness
avenger

Synonyms – verbs

revenge
have one’s revenge
wreak one’s anger.
keep the wound green
rankle

avenge
breathe revenge
have accounts to settle
harbor revenge
rankle in the breast.

vindicate
breathe vengeance
have a crow to pluck
harbor vindictive feeling

take one’s revenge
wreak one’s vengeance
have a rod in pickle.
bear malice

Synonyms – adjectives

revengeful
pitiless
unforgiving
implacable
rankling

vengeful
ruthless
unrelenting
relentless
immitigable.

vindictive
rigorous
inexorable
remorseless.

rancorous
avenging.
stony-hearted
aeternum servans sub pectore vulnus

Synonyms – phrases
manet ciratrix, manet alid mente repostum; dies irae dies illa; “in high vengeance there is noble scorn” [G. Eliot]; inhumanum verbum est ultio [Seneca); malevolus animus abditos dentes habet [Syrus]; “now infidel I have thee on the hip” [Merchant
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Other adjectives related to revenge

avenging
pitiless
revengeful
unforgiving

immitigable
rancorous
rigorous
unrelenting

implacable
rankling
ruthless
vengeful

inexorable
remorseless
stony
vindictive