requital | Definition of requital

Synonyms and Antonyms of requital

1 payment to another for a loss or injury

the judge ordered the landlord to pay his former tenants $100,000 each as requital for goods lost or damaged in the apartment fire

Synonyms of requital

compensation, damages, indemnification, indemnity, quittance, recompense, recoupment, redress, remuneration, reparation, reprisal(s), restitution, satisfaction

Words Related to requital

punitive damages, solatium

amends, atonement, expiation

refund, reimbursement, repayment

adjustment, settlement

punishment, retaliation

2 something (as money) that is given or received in return for goods or services

the electrician's requital for the used car was in the form of work on the dealer's house

Synonyms of requital

compensation, consideration, pay, payment, recompense, remittance, remuneration

Words Related to requital

salary, stipend, wage(s)

disbursement, expenditure, outlay

indemnity, recoupment, redress, reparation, restitution

adjustment, settlement

reimbursement, repayment

3 the act or an instance of responding to an injury with an injury

"an eye for an eye" is a form of requital that is still legal in some countries

Synonyms of requital

payback, reprisal, retaliation, retribution, revenge, vengeance

Words Related to requital

counter, counterattack, counteroffensive

castigation, chastisement, correction

desert(s), discipline, nemesis, penalty, punishment, wrath

amends, compensation, indemnification, indemnity, quittance, recompense, recoupment, redress, remuneration, reparation(s), restitution

Near Antonyms of requital

clemency, grace, leniency, lenity, mercy

forgiveness, pardon, remission