Usually means: Receiving punishment one rightly deserves.
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  1. comeuppance: Merriam-Webster
  2. comeuppance: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. comeuppance: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. comeuppance: Collins English Dictionary
  5. comeuppance: Vocabulary.com
  6. Comeuppance, comeuppance: Wordnik
  7. comeuppance: Wiktionary
  8. comeuppance: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. comeuppance: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. comeuppance: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. comeuppance: Dictionary.com
  12. comeuppance: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. comeuppance: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Comeuppance (Sphere3 album), Comeuppance (film), Comeuppance: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. comeuppance: Rhymezone
  16. comeuppance: FreeDictionary.org
  17. comeuppance: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. comeuppance: TheFreeDictionary.com
  19. comeuppance: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. comeuppance: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Comeuppance: Dublin Slang and Phrasebook
  2. comeuppance: Urban Dictionary

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▸ noun:  Retribution or outcome that is justly deserved.

Similar:
come-uppance, comeupance, payback, reckoning, avengement, desert, satisfaction, nemesis, revenge, recompense, more...

Opposite:
reward, compensation

Types:
karma, retribution, just desserts, poetic justice, comeback, comeback kid, comeback queen, comeback story, more...

Adjectives:
deserved, own, final, moral, comic, just, overdue, eventual, proper, inevitable, karmic

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Similar:
come-uppance, comeupance, payback, reckoning, avengement, desert, satisfaction, nemesis, revenge, recompense, more...

Opposite:
reward, compensation

Types:
karma, retribution, just desserts, poetic justice, comeback, comeback kid, comeback queen, comeback story, more...

Adjectives:
deserved, own, final, moral, comic, just, overdue, eventual, proper, inevitable, karmic

Colors:
    crimson,     scarlet,     burgundy,     maroon,     blood red, more...



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