Nemesis
Nemesis noun - One who inflicts punishment in return for an injury or offense.
Villain
Villain noun - A mean, evil, or unprincipled person.
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Synonyms for Villain
Nemesis and villain are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Nemesis" instead a noun "Villain".
Nearby Words: villainous, villainy
How words are described
| human | human nemesis | human villain |
| old | old nemesis | old villain |
| female | female nemesis | female villain |
| current | current nemesis | current villain |
| Other adjectives: original, true, actual, real, evil, bad, threatening, main, ultimate, new, early, major, former, minor, secondary, mysterious, primary, titular, greatest, different, recurring, eponymous, terrifying, one-shot. | ||
Both words in one sentence
- The villain Mitch Leary in In the Line of Fire refuses to take his nemesis Frank Horrigan's hand and plunges to his death instead, in an Ironic Echo of an earlier scene in which Leary saves Horrigan from dying the same way.
Source: Self-Disposing Villain - The Bount Filler Arc is almost as bad; the villain Kariya has little interaction with Ichigo and instead establishes himself as a nemesis to The Lancer Uryu.
Source: Only I Can Kill Him -
The boy who ends up finding it uses the new found power to fight crime and as there is only one super villain in Urbane City that means Kinesis accidentally created his own arch-nemesis.
Source: Create Your Own Villain
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Villain or Nemesis. 2016. Accessed July 27, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/nemesis/villain.
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