Word Meanings - REPAYMENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. The act of repaying; reimbursement. Jer. Taylor. 2. The money or other thing repaid.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of REPAYMENT)

• Retaliation
• Revenge
• repayment
• retribution
• requital
• reprisals
• reciprocation
• Retribution
• Penalty
• reward
• compensation
• punishment
• visitation

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of REPAYMENT)

• Punish
• misrequite

Related words: (words related to REPAYMENT)

• REPAYMENT
  1. The act of repaying; reimbursement. Jer. Taylor. 2. The money or other thing repaid.
• REWARDFUL
  Yielding reward.
• PUNISHER
  One who inflicts punishment.
• VISITATION
  The act of a naval commander who visits, or enters on board, a vessel belonging to another nation, for the purpose of ascertaining her character and object, but without claiming or exercising a right of searching the vessel. It is, however, usually
• PUNISHABLE
  Deserving of, or liable to, punishment; capable of being punished by law or right; -- said of person or offenses. That time was, when to be a Protestant, to be a Christian, was by law as punishable as to be a traitor. Milton. -- Pun"ish*a*ble*ness,
• REWARDLESS
  Having, or affording, no reward.
• REVENGEFUL
  Full of, or prone to, revenge; vindictive; malicious; revenging; wreaking revenge. If thy revengeful heart can not forgive. Shak. May my hands . . . Never brandish more rebvengeful steel. Shak. Syn. -- Vindictive; vengeful; resentful; malicious.
• REWARD
  To give in return, whether good or evil; -- commonly in a good sense; to requite; to recompense; to repay; to compensate. After the deed that is done, one doom shall reward, Mercy or no mercy as truth will accord. Piers Plowman. Thou hast rewarded
• RECIPROCATION
  1. The act of reciprocating; interchange of acts; a mutual giving and returning; as, the reciprocation of kindness. 2. Alternate recurrence or action; as, the reciprocation of the sea in the flow and ebb of tides. Sir T. Browne.
• REVENGEMENT
  Revenge. He 'll breed revengement and a scourge for me. Shak.
• RETRIBUTION
  1. The act of retributing; repayment. In good offices and due retributions, we may not be pinching and niggardly. Bp. Hall. 2. That which is given in repayment or compensation; return suitable to the merits or deserts of, as an action; commonly,
• REVENGEABLE
  Capable of being revenged; as, revengeable wrong. Warner.
• REVENGEANCE
  Vengeance; revenge.
• REWARDABLE
  Worthy of reward. -- Re*ward"a*ble*ness, n. -- Re*ward"a*bly, adv.
• PUNISHMENT
  A penalty inflicted by a court of justice on a convicted offender as a just retribution, and incidentally for the purposes of reformation and prevention. (more info) 1. The act of punishing. 2. Any pain, suffering, or loss inflicted on a person
• REVENGER
  One who revenges. Shak.
• REQUITAL
  The act of requiting; also, that which requites; return, good or bad, for anything done; in a good sense, compensation; recompense; as, the requital of services; in a bad sense, retaliation, or punishment; as, the requital of evil deeds. No merit
• PUNISH
  1. To impose a penalty upon; to afflict with pain, loss, or suffering for a crime or fault, either with or without a view to the offender's amendment; to cause to suffer in retribution; to chasten; as, to punish traitors with death; a
• RETALIATION
  The act of retaliating, or of returning like for like; retribution; now, specifically, the return of evil for evil; e.g., an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth. God . . . takes what is done to others as done to himself, and by promise
• PENALTY
  1. Penal retribution; punishment for crime or offense; the suffering in person or property which is annexed by law or judicial decision to the commission of a crime, offense, or trespass. Death is the penalty imposed. Milton. 2. The suffering,
• SHOREWARD
  Toward the shore.
• FIREWARDEN
  An officer who has authority to direct in the extinguishing of fires, or to order what precautions shall be taken against fires; -- called also fireward.
• REVISITATION
  The act of revisiting.
• SUPERREWARD
  To reward to an excessive degree. Bacon.
• RECOMPENSATION
  Used to denote a case where a set-off pleaded by the defendant is met by a set-off pleaded by the plaintiff. (more info) 1. Recompense.