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Nemesis

🔄 Synonyms of "Nemesis"

3 synonyms found via WordNet and Google Books.

Word	Definition
scourgenoun	(figurative) A source of persistent (and often widespread) pain and suffering or trouble, such as a cruel ruler, disease, pestilence, or war.
banenoun	(countable) A cause of misery or ruin.
cursenoun	A prayer or imprecation that harm may befall someone.

💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Nemesis"

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Word	Definition
cursenoun	A prayer or imprecation that harm may befall someone.
banenoun	(countable) A cause of misery or ruin.
scourgenoun	(figurative) A source of persistent (and often widespread) pain and suffering or trouble, such as a cruel ruler, disease, pestilence, or war.
enemynoun	Someone who is hostile to, feels hatred towards, opposes the interests of, or intends injury to someone else.
foenoun	An enemy.
downfallnoun	A precipitous decline in fortune; death or rapid deterioration, as in status or wealth.
ennemienoun	Obsolete spelling of enemy. [Someone who is hostile to, feels hatred towards, opposes the interests of, or intends injury to someone else.]
hostile	Not friendly; appropriate to an enemy; showing the disposition of an enemy; showing ill will and malevolence or a desire to thwart and injure.
enemienoun	Obsolete spelling of enemy. [Someone who is hostile to, feels hatred towards, opposes the interests of, or intends injury to someone else.]
worst enemynoun	An especially disliked or hostile person.
antagonistnoun	(authorship) The main character or force opposing the protagonist in a literary work or drama.
enemyenoun	Obsolete spelling of enemy. [Someone who is hostile to, feels hatred towards, opposes the interests of, or intends injury to someone else.]
adversarynoun	An opponent or rival.
public enemy number onenoun	(figurative) A person, organization, or other object considered to be particularly menacing, harmful, or loathsome.
antipathistnoun	An enemy or opponent.
unfriendly	Not friendly; hostile; mean.
bête noirenoun	Someone or something that is unbearable and so particularly avoided or disliked; the bane of someone's existence; an object of aversion; an anathema.
public enemynoun	A criminal widely regarded as dangerous or antisocial.
oppositenoun	A person or thing that is entirely different from or the reverse of someone or something else; used to show contrast between two people or two things.
anathemanoun	(by extension) Something which is vehemently disliked by somebody.