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payback has 2 distinct synonyms spread across 1 of its 2 senses. Each sense below keeps its own list, because a synonym belongs to a meaning and not to a word: swapping one sense's substitute into another sense's sentence is how a thesaurus makes writing worse. WordNet records no antonym for it — antonymy is a relation between word forms rather than concepts, so it is deliberately sparse.
Counts are distinct word forms across every sense. A synonym that appears under three senses is counted once here and shown three times below, under each sense it belongs to.
financial return or reward (especially returns equal to the initial investment)
the act of taking revenge (harming someone in retaliation for something harmful that they have done) especially in the next life
“Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord”
Synonyms, antonyms and the broader and narrower relations for payback come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Full sources and licences.