nemesis

noun

A source of harm or ruin.

noun

Retributive justice in its execution or outcome.

noun

An opponent that cannot be beaten or overcome.

noun

One that inflicts retribution or vengeance.

noun

The goddess of retributive justice or vengeance.

noun

In Greek myth, a goddess personifying allotment, or the divine distribution to every man of his precise share of fortune, good and bad.

noun

Retributive justice.

noun

[NL.] In zoology, a genus of crustaceans.

noun

The 128th planetoid, discovered by Watson in 1872.

proper noun

The goddess of retribution or vengeance; hence, retributive justice personified; divine vengeance.