riddance

Noun

Meaning

The act of ridding or freeing; deliverance; a cleaning up or out.

The state of being rid or free; freedom; escape.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

elimination exclusion expulsion ejection deliverance salvation release emancipation freedom escape destruction separation delivery removal rescue
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Antonyms

control capture entry arrival entrance integration
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Hypernyms

removal banishment proscription remotion

Hyponyms

simplification deportation barring ostracism ousting ouster

Anagrams

adendric candider

Examples

When people who are songwriters say 'That's my property and if you give it away for free then I'll lose my incentive,' then, well, good riddance. Ian MacKaye

I'm not sentimental. Good riddance. Linus Torvalds

Metrosexuality is dead. And good riddance to it. David Zinczenko

There was no simple riddance to the power of a dangerous political idea; no assassination possible to avert a disruptive change in technology; no natural death to be counted on to stop an economic change that ripped up ancestral estates or stirred up class discontent. Robert Heilbroner

Good riddance to bad rubbish. Rodman Philbrick

the ejection of troublemakers by the police Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

ridable ridaforolimus Ridd ridded Riddell riddelliine