vindication

The word “vindication” has 4 syllables: vin-di-ca-tion

It's pronounced as /ˌvɪn.dəˈkeɪ.ʃən/


What is synonym and antonym for vindication?

In the thesaurus, “vindication” has 13 synonyms and 11 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for vindication along with examples of usage in sentences.


Synonyms for vindication

  • absolution
  • acquittal
  • atonement
  • clearing
  • compurgation
  • condonation
  • exculpation
  • exoneration
  • expiation
  • forgiveness
  • pardon
  • remission
  • whitewash

Antonyms for vindication

  • accusation
  • arraignment
  • castigation
  • censure
  • condemnation
  • conviction
  • denunciation
  • impeachment
  • incrimination
  • indictment
  • prosecution

Meanings of vindication

  • noun
    1. The act of vindicating or the state of being vindicated.
    2. Evidence, facts, statements, or arguments that justify a claim or belief.

Example Sentences

  • The final report felt like complete vindication of their efforts.
  • He waited years for the vindication that finally came through the court’s ruling.
  • Public support offered her a sense of vindication after harsh criticism.
  • The discovery served as powerful vindication of the scientist’s theory.
  • Their victory was more than just success, it was true vindication.

On this page you'll find 24 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to vindication, such as: absolution, accusation, acquittal, arraignment, atonement, castigation, censure.

Make sure to choose synonyms and antonyms that are appropriate for the context of the sentence.

Related Words

palliation

palliative

  • abatement
  • absolution
  • account
  • acquittal
  • advocacy
  • aid
  • alky
  • allayment
  • alleviating
  • alleviation
  • amelioration
  • amendatory
  • anesthetic
  • anodyne
  • answer
  • antidotal
  • antidote
  • apologia
  • apology
  • appeasement
  • approval
  • argument
  • assistance
  • assuagement
  • balm
  • balsamic
  • basis
  • beneficial
  • benign
  • booze
  • break
  • breather
  • calming
  • canned heat
  • cheer
  • cocktail
  • comfort
  • comforting
  • confirmation
  • consolation
  • consolatory
  • consoling
  • contentment
  • cop-out
  • corrective
  • cosmetic
  • counteracting
  • cream
  • curative
  • cure
  • cure-all
  • defense
  • deliverance
  • demulcent
  • diminished responsibility
  • disciplinary
  • diversion
  • drink
  • ease
  • easement
  • easing
  • elixir
  • embrocation
  • emendatory
  • ethanol
  • exculpation
  • exoneration
  • explanation
  • extenuation
  • extenuative
  • extrication
  • firewater
  • fix
  • good point
  • grounds
  • hand
  • handout
  • happiness
  • hard stuff
  • harmless
  • healing
  • healthful
  • healthy
  • help
  • helpful
  • hootch
  • hypnotic
  • idea
  • innocuous
  • inoffensive
  • intoxicant
  • lenitive
  • letup
  • lift
  • lightening
  • liniment
  • liquor
  • maintenance
  • medicinal
  • medicine
  • methanol
  • mitigation
  • mollification
  • mollifying
  • moonshine
  • narcotic
  • nonfatal
  • nonlethal
  • nonpoisonous
  • nontoxic
  • nonvenomous
  • ointment
  • opiate
  • pacifier
  • pacifying
  • palliation
  • panacea
  • partial excuse
  • penal
  • plea
  • point of character
  • preparation
  • pretext
  • punitive
  • qualification
  • quick fix
  • rationale
  • rationalization
  • reassuring
  • rebuttal
  • rectifier
  • red-eye
  • reformatory
  • refreshment
  • rehabilitative
  • relaxing
  • release
  • relief
  • relieving
  • remedial
  • remedy
  • remedying
  • remission
  • reply
  • reprieve
  • respite
  • response
  • rest
  • restfulness
  • restorative
  • rotgut
  • salubrious
  • salutary
  • salve
  • salving
  • sanctification
  • satisfaction
  • sauce
  • security blanket
  • sedative
  • smoke
  • softening
  • solace
  • solution
  • song and dance
  • soother
  • soporific
  • spirits
  • story
  • succor
  • support
  • sustenance
  • therapeutic
  • therapy
  • tipple
  • toddy
  • tranquilizer
  • tranquilizing
  • tranquillizer
  • unguent
  • validation
  • vindication
  • warming
  • warrant
  • wash
  • whatfor
  • wherefore
  • whitewashing
  • whole idea
  • wholesome
  • why and wherefore

jive

  • BS
  • Charleston
  • Dixieland
  • Janus-faced
  • Pecksniffian
  • absurdity
  • act
  • adulation
  • advertise
  • affect
  • affected
  • aggrandize
  • alibi
  • allege
  • allusion
  • amuse
  • annoy
  • answer
  • apologetics
  • apologia
  • apologizing
  • apology
  • applause
  • applesauce
  • approbation
  • argot
  • argument
  • artfulness
  • artifact
  • artifice
  • artificial
  • assume
  • assumed
  • attract attention
  • babble
  • backhanded
  • badger
  • badinage
  • bait
  • balderdash
  • baloney
  • bamboozle
  • bamboozlement
  • bananas
  • banter
  • be at
  • be deceitful
  • be hypocritical
  • be noncommittal
  • beat around the bush
  • bebop
  • bedevil
  • beg the question
  • beguile
  • beleaguer
  • belie
  • bend
  • betray
  • bias
  • bilk
  • bill of goods
  • blandishment
  • blarney
  • blather
  • blow
  • blow hot and cold
  • blow smoke
  • blues
  • bluff
  • bluster
  • boast
  • bogus
  • bombast
  • bon mot
  • boogie
  • boogie down
  • boogie-woogie
  • boondoggle
  • bootlicking
  • bop
  • bother
  • buckle
  • bull
  • bully
  • bunco
  • bunk
  • bunkum
  • bunny hop
  • bureaucratese
  • burlesque
  • burn
  • buzz
  • caboodle
  • cajolery
  • campy
  • cant
  • canting
  • caricature
  • caricaturize
  • cartoon
  • catch
  • cavil
  • chaff
  • chat
  • chatter
  • chatty
  • cheat
  • chicane
  • chicanery
  • chitchat
  • chouse
  • circumvent
  • circumvention
  • claim
  • claim falsely
  • claptrap
  • cleanup
  • clip
  • cloud the issue
  • cock-a-doodle-doo
  • coin
  • colloquial
  • colloquialism
  • colloquy
  • coloring
  • come-off
  • commendation
  • comment
  • common
  • communication
  • communion
  • computerese
  • con
  • con game
  • concoct
  • concoction
  • confab
  • confabulation
  • conference
  • confidence game
  • conga
  • congratulate oneself
  • consultation
  • contortion
  • contrive
  • contrived
  • conversation
  • conversational
  • converse
  • cop a plea
  • cop out
  • cop-out
  • counterfeit
  • cover
  • cover story
  • cover up
  • cover-up
  • coverup
  • cozen
  • cozening
  • crack
  • crack wise
  • craft
  • craftiness
  • crap
  • craziness
  • create fiction
  • crock
  • crookedness
  • crow
  • cry
  • cunning
  • cut a rug
  • cyberspeak
  • debate
  • deceit
  • deceitful
  • deceive
  • deception
  • decoy
  • defense
  • deflate
  • defraud
  • delude
  • demotic
  • deride
  • device
  • devil
  • devious
  • devise
  • dialect
  • dialectal
  • diddle
  • dirty dealing
  • dirty pool
  • dirty trick
  • dirty work
  • disco
  • discussion
  • disguise
  • dishonest
  • dishonesty
  • disinform
  • dissemblance
  • dissemble
  • dissimulate
  • dissimulation
  • distort
  • disturb
  • ditch
  • divert
  • do
  • do a number on
  • do number on
  • do out of
  • dodge
  • dodging
  • dog
  • double
  • double-cross
  • double-deal
  • double-dealing
  • double-faced
  • double-talk
  • drivel
  • duck
  • dupe
  • duplicity
  • educationese
  • elaborate explanation
  • elude
  • elusion
  • embezzle
  • empty
  • empty talk
  • encomium
  • entertain
  • equivocate
  • equivocating
  • equivocation
  • escape
  • eschew
  • eschewal
  • eulogy
  • evade
  • evading
  • evasion
  • evasiveness
  • everyday
  • exaggerate
  • exaggeration
  • exchange
  • exculpation
  • excuse
  • excusing
  • exoneration
  • expedient
  • explaining
  • expose
  • expression
  • extenuation
  • exult
  • eyewash
  • fable
  • fabricate
  • facade
  • facetious
  • facile
  • fairy story
  • fake
  • fake out
  • fakery
  • fallacy
  • false
  • false front
  • falsehood
  • falsify
  • fancy footwork
  • farce
  • fast one
  • fast shuffle
  • fatuity
  • fawning
  • feign
  • feigned
  • feint
  • fence
  • fib
  • fiction
  • figment
  • fish
  • fish story
  • fix
  • flapdoodle
  • flatter oneself
  • flattering
  • flaunt
  • fleece
  • fleer
  • flightiness
  • flimflam
  • flip-flop
  • flourish
  • flout
  • flummery
  • foil
  • folly
  • fool
  • foolery
  • foolishness
  • foot it
  • forced
  • forge
  • forgery
  • form
  • foul play
  • fox
  • foxtrot
  • frame
  • fraud
  • frolic
  • fudge
  • fudging
  • fugiviteness
  • fugivity
  • fulsomeness
  • fun
  • funny
  • fusion jazz
  • futile talk
  • gab
  • gag
  • gallantry
  • gambol
  • game
  • garbage
  • garble
  • gasconade
  • get down
  • gibberish
  • gibe
  • giddiness
  • gimmick
  • gird
  • give a good account of oneself
  • give a hard time
  • give the runaround
  • glib
  • gloat
  • glory
  • gnaw
  • goad
  • gobbledygook
  • goof on
  • gossip
  • governmentese
  • grandstand
  • grapevine
  • grounds
  • gull
  • hanky-panky
  • harass
  • harry
  • haze
  • hearing
  • hearsay
  • hector
  • hedge
  • hem and haw
  • hint
  • hoax
  • hoaxing
  • hocus-pocus
  • hogwash
  • hokum
  • hollow
  • hollow words
  • honeyed words
  • hoodwink
  • hooey
  • hop
  • horse around
  • hot air
  • hot jazz
  • hot-dog
  • hug oneself
  • humbug
  • humiliate
  • hustle
  • hypocrisy
  • hypocritical
  • hypocritical respect
  • hypocriticalness
  • idiocy
  • idiom
  • idiomatic
  • idle talk
  • illogicality
  • illogicalness
  • illude
  • illusion
  • imitation
  • impersonate
  • importune
  • impose on
  • impose upon
  • impostor
  • imposture
  • improbability
  • improvisational music
  • imprudence
  • inanity
  • incongruity
  • ingratiation
  • innuendo
  • insanity
  • insincere
  • insincerity
  • insinuation
  • intercourse
  • intorsion
  • invent
  • invention
  • irrationality
  • jabber
  • jape
  • jargon
  • jaw
  • jazz
  • jeer
  • jest
  • jibe
  • jig
  • jitter
  • jitterbug
  • jocular
  • joke
  • jolly
  • josh
  • journalese
  • juggle
  • juke
  • jump
  • justification
  • kid
  • kid around
  • lampoon
  • language
  • laud
  • laugh
  • laugh at
  • lay claim
  • lay on thick
  • lead on
  • lead up garden path
  • leap
  • left-handed
  • let on
  • lie
  • line
  • lingo
  • lip
  • lip devotion
  • lip homage
  • lip praise
  • lip reverence
  • lip worship
  • localism
  • ludicrousness
  • madness
  • make a fool of
  • make a game of
  • make a laughingstock
  • make believe
  • make fun of
  • make like
  • make merry
  • make out
  • make up
  • makeshift
  • malarkey
  • malconformation
  • malformation
  • malinger
  • masquerade
  • mealy
  • mealymouthed
  • meaningless
  • mechanical
  • milk
  • mimic
  • mince words
  • misguide
  • misinterpretation
  • mislead
  • misrepresent
  • misrepresentation
  • misshape
  • misspeak
  • misstatement
  • misuse
  • mitigation
  • mock
  • mockery
  • monologue
  • mousetrap
  • mouth
  • mouth honor
  • mouthing
  • mumbo jumbo
  • mush
  • mutilation
  • myth
  • needle
  • noise
  • nonsense
  • nudge
  • number
  • obliqueness
  • obsequiousness
  • observation
  • off-time
  • one-liner
  • one-step
  • opus
  • outfox
  • outwit
  • palaver
  • palter
  • pan
  • parlance
  • parley
  • parody
  • parry
  • pass off
  • pass oneself off as
  • pass the buck
  • pat oneself on the back
  • patois
  • patter
  • persiflage
  • perversion
  • pester
  • pharisaical
  • pharisaism
  • phoney
  • phoney-baloney
  • phoniness
  • phony
  • phony up
  • phony-baloney
  • pick on
  • pidgin
  • piffle
  • pilfer
  • pillow talk
  • pious
  • pitch
  • plague
  • plant
  • plaudits
  • play
  • play a trick on
  • play for a fool
  • play the clown
  • play trick on
  • play tricks
  • play-act
  • plea
  • pleasantry
  • poke fun
  • poke fun at
  • pooh-pooh
  • poppycock
  • popular
  • prank
  • prate
  • prattle
  • preen
  • pretend
  • pretended
  • pretense
  • pretext
  • pretty speech
  • prevaricate
  • prevarication
  • profess
  • promenade
  • promote
  • prose
  • provincialism
  • psych
  • psych out
  • puff
  • puffery
  • pull fast one
  • pull wool over
  • purport
  • pussyfoot
  • put down
  • put on
  • put one over on
  • put up a front
  • put-on
  • questioning
  • quibble
  • quip
  • quiz
  • racket
  • rag
  • ragtime
  • rail at
  • raillery
  • rally
  • ranting
  • rashness
  • rationalization
  • razz
  • regionalism
  • regrets
  • rejoinder
  • remark
  • repartee
  • reply
  • report
  • response
  • retort
  • return
  • revel
  • rhumba
  • rib
  • rib-tickler
  • ride
  • ridicule
  • ridiculousness
  • rigmarole
  • rip off
  • ripoff
  • roast
  • rob
  • rodomontade
  • rook
  • rot
  • routine
  • rubbish
  • rumble
  • rumor
  • run around
  • run down
  • runaround
  • ruse
  • sales talk
  • sally
  • samba
  • sanctimonious
  • satirize
  • scam
  • scoff
  • scorn
  • scout
  • scrawl
  • scribble
  • scuttlebutt
  • self-righteous
  • sell
  • sellout
  • semblance
  • send up
  • senselessness
  • set up
  • shady deal
  • shaft
  • sham
  • sharp practice
  • shell game
  • shift
  • shilly-shally
  • shirking
  • shoot
  • shop
  • shoptalk
  • shovel
  • show off
  • show up
  • showboat
  • shuck
  • shuffle
  • shuffling
  • shunning
  • sidestep
  • silliness
  • simon-pure
  • simulate
  • simulated
  • sit on the fence
  • slam
  • slang
  • slanguage
  • slant
  • sling
  • small talk
  • smoke
  • smooth talk
  • snap
  • snare
  • sneer
  • snow
  • snow job
  • soft soap
  • soft words
  • soft-soap
  • song
  • song and dance
  • sophism
  • sophistry
  • sound
  • sound off
  • speak with forked tongue
  • speech
  • spiel
  • spin
  • spoof
  • sport
  • stab in the back
  • stall
  • step
  • stick
  • sting
  • stonewall
  • stopgap
  • story
  • strained
  • stratagem
  • street
  • stretch the truth
  • string along
  • stroking
  • strut
  • stultiloquence
  • stunt
  • stupidity
  • substitute
  • subterfuge
  • suck in
  • sucker
  • sucker into
  • superficial
  • swagger
  • sweet-talk
  • swindle
  • swing
  • swipe at
  • sycophancy
  • take
  • take for a ride
  • take in
  • take off
  • take the mickey out of
  • take to the cleaners
  • takeoff
  • talk
  • talk big
  • talkfest
  • tall story
  • tango
  • tantalize
  • tap
  • taunt
  • tease
  • technobabble
  • tell a little white lie
  • tell white lie
  • temporize
  • tergiversate
  • tergiverse
  • terminology
  • the business
  • thoughtlessness
  • toadyism
  • token agreement
  • tokenism
  • tomfoolery
  • tongue-in-cheek
  • torment
  • torture
  • trap
  • trash
  • travesty
  • treachery
  • tribute
  • trick
  • trickery
  • trickiness
  • trifle
  • trip the light fantastic
  • tripe
  • triumph
  • truckling
  • trump up
  • twaddle
  • twist
  • twistedness
  • twit
  • two-faced
  • two-step
  • unctuous
  • unctuousness
  • unmask
  • unnatural
  • unreasonableness
  • untruth
  • untruthful
  • useless words
  • vapor
  • vaunt
  • ventilation
  • vernacular
  • vernacularism
  • vex
  • victimize
  • vindication
  • visit
  • vocabulary
  • waffle
  • waltz
  • warp
  • weasel
  • whitewash
  • why and wherefore
  • wile
  • wiliness
  • wisecrack
  • witticism
  • work
  • worry
  • wrinkle
  • wrong
  • yak
  • yarn
  • yuck
  • yuk

sanctification

  • ablution
  • absolution
  • acceptance
  • account
  • acknowledgment
  • acquiescence
  • acquittal
  • admission
  • adoration
  • advocacy
  • agreement
  • allowance
  • amen
  • answer
  • apologia
  • apology
  • approbation
  • approval
  • argument
  • assent
  • atonement
  • authorization
  • avowal
  • baptism
  • baptismal
  • basis
  • bathing
  • beatitude
  • benedictus
  • benison
  • blessing
  • canonization
  • carte blanche
  • catharsis
  • christening
  • church
  • cleansing
  • clearance
  • clearing
  • communion
  • concession
  • concurrence
  • condonance
  • condonation
  • confirmation
  • consecration
  • consent
  • cop-out
  • creed
  • cult
  • debut
  • dedication
  • defense
  • denomination
  • depuration
  • devotion
  • disinfection
  • dispensation
  • distillation
  • doctrine
  • dunking
  • empowerment
  • endorsement
  • exculpation
  • exoneration
  • expiation
  • explanation
  • expurgation
  • extenuation
  • favor
  • forgiveness
  • freedom
  • glorification
  • grace
  • gratitude
  • grounds
  • hallowing
  • higher power
  • idea
  • immersion
  • imprimatur
  • indulgence
  • introduction
  • invocation
  • launching
  • lavation
  • laving
  • laying on of hands
  • leave
  • letting
  • liberty
  • license
  • lustration
  • mitigation
  • morality
  • myth
  • mythology
  • observance
  • okay
  • orison
  • orthodoxy
  • palliation
  • palliative
  • permit
  • pietism
  • piety
  • plea
  • praise
  • prayer
  • preference
  • pretext
  • privilege
  • promise
  • purgation
  • purge
  • purification
  • purifying
  • rarefaction
  • rationale
  • rationalization
  • rebirth
  • rebuttal
  • recognition
  • redemption
  • refinement
  • regeneration
  • religiosity
  • remission
  • reply
  • response
  • restoration
  • reverence
  • rite of passage
  • rites
  • ritual
  • rubber stamp
  • sacrifice
  • salvation
  • sanction
  • sect
  • song and dance
  • spiritual-mindedness
  • spirituality
  • sprinkling
  • stamp of approval
  • standards
  • story
  • sufferance
  • superstition
  • support
  • thanks
  • thanksgiving
  • theology
  • tolerance
  • toleration
  • validation
  • veneration
  • verification
  • vindication
  • warrant
  • washing
  • whatfor
  • wherefore
  • whitewashing
  • whole idea
  • why and wherefore
  • worship

satisfaction

  • achievement
  • adjustment
  • afterglow
  • amends
  • amusement
  • assurance
  • assuredness
  • atonement
  • authoritarianism
  • bliss
  • certainty
  • certitude
  • cheer
  • cheerfulness
  • cocksureness
  • comfort
  • compensation
  • complacency
  • conciliation
  • confidence
  • content
  • contentedness
  • contentment
  • conviction
  • damages
  • decisiveness
  • delectation
  • delight
  • determination
  • diversion
  • dogmatism
  • doubtlessness
  • ease
  • ecstasy
  • elatedness
  • elation
  • enjoyment
  • entertainment
  • eudemonia
  • euphoria
  • exhilaration
  • expiation
  • exuberance
  • exultation
  • face
  • felicity
  • firmness
  • fulfillment
  • gaiety
  • gayety
  • gladness
  • glee
  • gleefulness
  • good fortune
  • gratification
  • happiness
  • heaven
  • indemnification
  • indemnity
  • indulgence
  • intoxication
  • joie de vivre
  • jollity
  • joy
  • joyfulness
  • jubilation
  • justice
  • peace of mind
  • pleasance
  • pleasure
  • positiveness
  • pride
  • propitiation
  • punishment
  • punitive damages
  • purposefulness
  • quittance
  • rapture
  • recompense
  • recoupment
  • redress
  • refreshment
  • refund
  • reimbursement
  • relief
  • relish
  • remuneration
  • reparation
  • repayment
  • repletion
  • requital
  • resoluteness
  • resolution
  • resolve
  • restfulness
  • restitution
  • retaliation
  • reward
  • satiety
  • serenity
  • settlement
  • solatium
  • sureness
  • surety
  • vindication
  • well-being

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