comeuppance
/kʌmˈʌp(ə)ns
/noun [in singular] informal
A punishment or fate that someone deserves: he got his comeuppance in the end...
- By any reasonable moral reckoning he deserves all the comeuppance of his bad faith.
- I kept turning the pages, anticipating the comeuppance that he so richly deserved.
- Among the more baffling parts of this showdown is why Madam Secretary would have invited such a comeuppance in the first place.
Synonyms
just deserts, deserved fate, due, due reward, just punishment, retribution, requital
archaic recompense
Rhymes
- intensely
- intenseness
- intensification
- intensifier
- intensify
- intension
- intensional
- intensionally
- intensity
- intensive
- intensive care
- intensive care unit
- intensively
- intensiveness
- intensivist
- intent
- intention
- intentional
- intentional fallacy
- intentionalism
- intentionality
- intentionally
- intentioned
- intention tremor
- intently