POETIC JUSTICE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does poetic justice mean? 

• POETIC JUSTICE (noun)
  The noun POETIC JUSTICE has 1 sense:

1. an outcome (good or bad) that is well deserved and fitting

  Familiarity information: POETIC JUSTICE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• POETIC JUSTICE (noun)

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 ("poetic justice" is a kind of...):

aftermath; consequence (the outcome of an event especially as relative to an individual)

 Context examples 

There was a sort of poetic justice about it, after all, for the old lady had been the terror of the boys for miles around, and now the exiles feasted freely on forbidden plums, kicked up the gravel with profane boots unreproved, and played cricket in the big field where the irritable 'cow with a crumpled horn' used to invite rash youths to come and be tossed.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)