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COMEUPPANCE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does comeuppance mean?
• COMEUPPANCE (noun)
The noun COMEUPPANCE has 1 sense:
1. an outcome (good or bad) that is well deserved and fitting
Familiarity information: COMEUPPANCE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
An outcome (good or bad) that is well deserved and fitting
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural events
Synonyms:
comeupance; comeuppance; just deserts; poetic justice
Hypernyms ("comeuppance" is a kind of...):
aftermath; consequence (the outcome of an event especially as relative to an individual)
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