Exact Match:
- punitive
- inflicting punishment; "punitive justice"; "punitive damages"
Synonyms:
- avenging,
- castigating,
- castigatory,
- chastening,
- chastising,
- compensatory,
- correctional,
- corrective,
- disciplinary,
- grudgeful,
- grueling,
- implacable,
- inflictive,
- irreconcilable,
- penal,
- penological,
- punishing,
- punitory,
- rancorous,
- reciprocal,
- recompensing,
- recompensive,
- reparative,
- restitutive,
- retaliative,
- retaliatory,
- retributive,
- retributory,
- revanchist,
- revengeful,
- unappeasable,
- vengeful,
- vindicatory,
- vindictive
Related Words:
- retributive
collapse - given or inflicted in requital according to merits or deserts; "retributive justice" related words >
- castigatory,
- chastening,
- chastising,
- compensating,
- compensative,
- compensatory,
- corrective,
- disciplinary,
- grueling,
- indemnificatory,
- inflictive,
- lucrative,
- moneymaking,
- paying,
- penal,
- penological,
- profitable,
- punishing,
- punitive,
- punitory,
- reciprocal,
- recompensing,
- recompensive,
- redeeming,
- redemptional,
- redemptive,
- remunerative,
- reparative,
- repaying,
- restitutive,
- restitutory,
- restorative,
- retaliative,
- retaliatory,
- retributory,
- reversional,
- reversionary,
- revertible,
- rewardful,
- rewarding,
- satisfying
- disciplinary
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- relating to a specific field of academic study; "economics in its modern disciplinary sense"
- relating to discipline in behavior; "disciplinary problems in the classroom" related words >
- autodidactic,
- castigatory,
- chastening,
- chastising,
- coeducational,
- corrective,
- cultural,
- didactic,
- edifying,
- educating,
- educational,
- educative,
- enlightening,
- exhortatory,
- grueling,
- homiletic,
- hortatory,
- illuminating,
- inflictive,
- informative,
- initiatory,
- instructive,
- introductory,
- lecturing,
- penal,
- penological,
- preaching,
- preceptive,
- propaedeutic,
- punishing,
- punitive,
- punitory,
- retributive,
- scholarly,
- scientific,
- self-teaching,
- teaching,
- technical,
- technicological,
- technological,
- tuitionary
- analeptic,
- apologetic,
- ascetic,
- atoning,
- cleansing,
- compensational,
- compensatory,
- curative,
- expiatory,
- indemnificatory,
- lustral,
- lustrational,
- lustrative,
- penitential,
- piacular,
- propitiatory,
- punitive,
- purgative,
- purgatorial,
- purifying,
- reciprocal,
- reclamatory,
- recompensing,
- recompensive,
- redeeming,
- redemptional,
- redemptive,
- redressing,
- remedial,
- reparative,
- reparatory,
- repentant,
- repenting,
- restitutional,
- restitutory,
- restorative,
- retaliative,
- retaliatory,
- retributive,
- retributory,
- reversional,
- reversionary,
- revertible,
- righting,
- satisfactional,
- squaring
- punishing
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- resulting in punishment; "the king imposed a punishing tax" related words >
- Herculean,
- arduous,
- backbreaking,
- burdensome,
- castigatory,
- chastening,
- chastising,
- corrective,
- crushing,
- demanding,
- disciplinary,
- draining,
- effortful,
- exhausting,
- fatiguesome,
- fatiguing,
- forced,
- grueling,
- hard,
- hard-earned,
- hard-fought,
- heavy,
- hefty,
- inflictive,
- killing,
- labored,
- laborious,
- onerous,
- operose,
- oppressive,
- painful,
- penal,
- penological,
- punitive,
- punitory,
- retributive,
- strained,
- straining,
- strenuous,
- stressful,
- taxing,
- tiresome,
- tiring,
- toilsome,
- torturous,
- tough,
- troublesome,
- trying,
- uphill,
- weariful,
- wearing,
- wearisome,
- wearying
- retaliatory
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- of or relating to or having the nature of retribution; "retributive justice demands an eye for an eye" related words >
- amendatory,
- avenging,
- balancing,
- changeable,
- commutable,
- commutative,
- compensating,
- compensatory,
- convertible,
- counteracting,
- counteractive,
- counterbalancing,
- countervailing,
- equal,
- equalizing,
- equivalent,
- even,
- exchanged,
- expiatory,
- give-and-take,
- grudgeful,
- implacable,
- indemnificatory,
- interchangeable,
- interchanged,
- irreconcilable,
- mutual,
- offsetting,
- penitential,
- permutable,
- punitive,
- punitory,
- rancorous,
- reciprocal,
- reciprocating,
- reciprocative,
- recompensing,
- recompensive,
- rectifying,
- reparative,
- restitutive,
- retaliative,
- retributive,
- retributory,
- returnable,
- revanchist,
- revengeful,
- standard,
- swapped,
- switched,
- traded,
- transposed,
- unappeasable,
- vengeful,
- vindicatory,
- vindictive
- rancorous
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- showing deep-seated resentment; "preserve...from rancourous envy of the rich"- Aldous Huxley related words >
- acerb,
- acerbate,
- acerbic,
- acid,
- acidic,
- acidulent,
- acidulous,
- acrid,
- acrimonious,
- antagonistic,
- antipathetic,
- avenging,
- belligerent,
- bitter,
- burning,
- caustic,
- choleric,
- clashing,
- colliding,
- conflicting,
- despiteful,
- embittered,
- envenomed,
- evil,
- full of hate,
- grudgeful,
- hateful,
- hostile,
- implacable,
- irreconcilable,
- malevolent,
- malicious,
- malign,
- malignant,
- punitive,
- punitory,
- quarrelsome,
- rankled,
- repugnant,
- resentful,
- resenting,
- retaliatory,
- revanchist,
- revengeful,
- set against,
- sore,
- spiteful,
- splenetic,
- stewing,
- unappeasable,
- venenate,
- vengeful,
- venomous,
- vicious,
- vindicatory,
- vindictive,
- virulent,
- vitriolic,
- wicked
- implacable
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- incapable of being placated; "an implacable enemy" related words >
- adamant,
- adamantine,
- avenging,
- cast-iron,
- cruel,
- dour,
- firm,
- flinty,
- grim,
- grudgeful,
- hard,
- hard-core,
- immovable,
- immutable,
- impliable,
- inelastic,
- inexorable,
- inflexible,
- intractable,
- intransigent,
- iron,
- irreconcilable,
- merciless,
- mortal,
- pitiless,
- punitive,
- punitory,
- rancorous,
- relentless,
- retaliatory,
- revanchist,
- revengeful,
- rigid,
- rigorous,
- rock-ribbed,
- ruthless,
- steely,
- stern,
- stiff,
- unaffected,
- unalterable,
- unappeasable,
- unbending,
- unchangeable,
- uncompassionate,
- uncompromising,
- unflinching,
- unforgiving,
- ungiving,
- unmoved,
- unrelenting,
- unsympathetic,
- unyielding,
- vengeful,
- vindicatory,
- vindictive
- Herculean,
- annoying,
- arduous,
- backbreaking,
- besetting,
- bothersome,
- burdensome,
- castigatory,
- chastening,
- chastising,
- corrective,
- crushing,
- devitalizing,
- disciplinary,
- draining,
- effortful,
- enervating,
- enfeebling,
- exhausting,
- fatiguesome,
- fatiguing,
- forced,
- hard-earned,
- hard-fought,
- heavy,
- hefty,
- inflictive,
- irksome,
- killing,
- labored,
- laborious,
- onerous,
- operose,
- oppressive,
- painful,
- penal,
- penological,
- plaguey,
- punishing,
- punitive,
- punitory,
- retributive,
- sapping,
- strained,
- straining,
- strenuous,
- stressful,
- tiresome,
- tiring,
- toilsome,
- tough,
- troublesome,
- trying,
- uphill,
- vexatious,
- weakening,
- weariful,
- wearing,
- wearisome,
- wearying
- amendatory,
- apologetic,
- ascetic,
- atoning,
- balancing,
- cleansing,
- compensating,
- compensational,
- compensative,
- counteracting,
- counteractive,
- counterbalancing,
- countervailing,
- expiatory,
- indemnificatory,
- lucrative,
- lustral,
- lustrational,
- lustrative,
- moneymaking,
- offsetting,
- paying,
- penitential,
- piacular,
- profitable,
- propitiatory,
- punitive,
- purgative,
- purgatorial,
- purifying,
- reciprocal,
- reclamatory,
- recompensing,
- recompensive,
- rectifying,
- redeeming,
- redemptional,
- redemptive,
- redressing,
- remunerative,
- reparative,
- reparatory,
- repaying,
- repentant,
- repenting,
- restitutional,
- restitutive,
- restitutory,
- restorative,
- retaliative,
- retaliatory,
- retributive,
- retributory,
- reversional,
- reversionary,
- revertible,
- rewardful,
- rewarding,
- righting,
- satisfactional,
- satisfying,
- squaring
- amendatory,
- analeptic,
- apologetic,
- ascetic,
- atoning,
- balancing,
- cleansing,
- compensating,
- compensational,
- compensative,
- compensatory,
- counteracting,
- counteractive,
- counterbalancing,
- countervailing,
- curative,
- expiatory,
- indemnificatory,
- lucrative,
- lustral,
- lustrational,
- lustrative,
- moneymaking,
- offsetting,
- paying,
- penitential,
- piacular,
- profitable,
- propitiatory,
- punitive,
- purgative,
- purgatorial,
- purifying,
- reciprocal,
- reclamatory,
- recompensing,
- recompensive,
- rectifying,
- redeeming,
- redemptional,
- redemptive,
- redressing,
- remedial,
- remunerative,
- reparatory,
- repaying,
- repentant,
- repenting,
- restitutional,
- restitutive,
- restitutory,
- restorative,
- retaliative,
- retaliatory,
- retributive,
- retributory,
- reversional,
- reversionary,
- revertible,
- rewardful,
- rewarding,
- righting,
- satisfactional,
- satisfying,
- squaring
- a hog for,
- acquisitive,
- all-devouring,
- avaricious,
- avenging,
- avid,
- bottomless,
- coveting,
- covetous,
- devouring,
- esurient,
- gluttonous,
- gobbling,
- grabby,
- grasping,
- greedy,
- grudgeful,
- hoggish,
- implacable,
- insatiable,
- insatiate,
- irreconcilable,
- limitless,
- mercenary,
- merciless,
- miserly,
- money-hungry,
- money-mad,
- mortal,
- omnivorous,
- overgreedy,
- piggish,
- punitive,
- punitory,
- quenchless,
- rancorous,
- rapacious,
- ravening,
- ravenous,
- relentless,
- retaliatory,
- revanchist,
- revengeful,
- ruthless,
- slakeless,
- sordid,
- swinish,
- unappeased,
- unflinching,
- unquenchable,
- unrelenting,
- unsated,
- unsatisfiable,
- unsatisfied,
- unslakeable,
- unslaked,
- unyielding,
- venal,
- vengeful,
- vindicatory,
- vindictive,
- voracious
- corrective
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- a device for treating injury or disease
- tending or intended to correct or counteract or restore to a normal condition; "corrective measures"; "corrective lenses"
- designed to promote discipline; "the teacher's action was corrective rather than instructional"; "disciplinal measures"; "the mother was stern and disciplinary" related words >
- Fabian,
- adjuvant,
- aid,
- alterative,
- analeptic,
- antidote,
- assistance,
- balm,
- balsam,
- castigatory,
- chastening,
- chastising,
- counteractant,
- counteractive,
- counteragent,
- countermeasure,
- counterstep,
- curative,
- cure,
- disciplinary,
- emendatory,
- gradualistic,
- grueling,
- healing,
- healing agent,
- healing quality,
- help,
- iatric,
- inflictive,
- medicative,
- medicinal,
- melioristic,
- penal,
- penological,
- prescription,
- punishing,
- punitive,
- punitory,
- radical,
- receipt,
- recipe,
- reformational,
- reformative,
- reformatory,
- reformist,
- reformistic,
- relief,
- remedial,
- remedial measure,
- remedy,
- restorative,
- retributive,
- revisional,
- revisionist,
- revisory,
- revolutionary,
- sanative,
- sanatory,
- sovereign remedy,
- specific,
- specific remedy,
- succor,
- therapeutic,
- theriac,
- utopian
- acrid,
- acrimonious,
- antagonistic,
- antipathetic,
- bearish,
- belligerent,
- bitchy,
- bitter,
- cankered,
- cantankerous,
- cattish,
- catty,
- caustic,
- churlish,
- clashing,
- colliding,
- conflicting,
- crabbed,
- cranky,
- cross,
- cross-grained,
- crusty,
- cussed,
- despiteful,
- disagreeable,
- evil,
- excitable,
- feisty,
- fractious,
- full of hate,
- hateful,
- hostile,
- huffish,
- huffy,
- invidious,
- irascible,
- irritable,
- malevolent,
- malicious,
- malign,
- malignant,
- mean,
- ornery,
- perverse,
- punitive,
- quarrelsome,
- rancorous,
- repugnant,
- retaliative,
- retaliatory,
- retributive,
- retributory,
- revengeful,
- set against,
- snappish,
- sore,
- spleeny,
- splenetic,
- testy,
- ugly,
- unforgiving,
- unfriendly,
- vengeful,
- venomous,
- vicious,
- vindictive,
- virulent,
- vitriolic,
- waspish,
- wicked
- irreconcilable
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- impossible to reconcile; "irreconcilable differences" related words >
- abnormal,
- absurd,
- adamant,
- adamantine,
- alienated,
- anomalous,
- assorted,
- at odds,
- at variance,
- avenging,
- bitter-ender,
- brawler,
- cast-iron,
- contrary,
- contrasted,
- contrasting,
- defendant,
- departing,
- deviating,
- deviative,
- diehard,
- different,
- differentiated,
- differing,
- disaccordant,
- disaffected,
- disagreeing,
- discordant,
- discrepant,
- discrete,
- discriminated,
- disjoined,
- disparate,
- disproportionate,
- disputant,
- dissentient,
- dissident,
- dissimilar,
- dissonant,
- distinct,
- distinguished,
- disunited,
- divergent,
- diverging,
- divers,
- diverse,
- diversified,
- divided,
- dour,
- estranged,
- firm,
- flinty,
- grim,
- grudgeful,
- hard,
- hard-core,
- heterogeneous,
- immovable,
- immutable,
- implacable,
- impliable,
- in disagreement,
- inaccordant,
- incoherent,
- incommensurable,
- incommensurate,
- incompatible,
- incongruent,
- incongruous,
- inconsequent,
- inconsistent,
- inconsonant,
- inelastic,
- inexorable,
- inflexible,
- inharmonious,
- intransigent,
- iron,
- last-ditcher,
- litigant,
- many,
- motley,
- multifarious,
- naysayer,
- negativist,
- noncooperator,
- objector,
- obstructionist,
- obstructive,
- opposer,
- oppositionist,
- out of proportion,
- oxymoronic,
- paradoxical,
- plaintiff,
- poles apart,
- poles asunder,
- protester,
- punitive,
- punitory,
- quarreler,
- rancorous,
- relentless,
- resister,
- retaliatory,
- revanchist,
- revengeful,
- rigid,
- rigorous,
- rock-ribbed,
- scrapper,
- self-contradictory,
- separate,
- separated,
- several,
- steely,
- stern,
- stiff,
- torn,
- unaffected,
- unalterable,
- unappeasable,
- unbending,
- unchangeable,
- uncompromising,
- unconformable,
- unequal,
- ungiving,
- unlike,
- unmoved,
- unrelenting,
- unyielding,
- variant,
- varied,
- variegated,
- various,
- varying,
- vengeful,
- vindicatory,
- vindictive,
- widely apart,
- worlds apart,
- wrangler
- reciprocal
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- something (a term or expression or concept) that has a reciprocal relation to something else; "risk is the reciprocal of safety"
- of or relating to the multiplicative inverse of a quantity or function; "the reciprocal ratio of a:b is b:a"
- concerning each of two or more persons or things; especially given or done in return; "reciprocal aid"; "reciprocal trade"; "mutual respect"; "reciprocal privileges at other clubs" related words >
- algorismic,
- algorithmic,
- aliquot,
- ally,
- alter ego,
- alternate,
- analogon,
- analogous,
- analogue,
- answering,
- associate,
- associated,
- back-and-forth,
- beating,
- brother,
- cardinal,
- changeable,
- circling,
- close copy,
- close match,
- coacting,
- coactive,
- coadjutant,
- coadjuvant,
- coefficient,
- coequal,
- cognate,
- collaborative,
- collective,
- collectivist,
- collectivistic,
- collusive,
- combined,
- commensal,
- common,
- communal,
- communalist,
- communalistic,
- communist,
- communistic,
- communitarian,
- commutable,
- commutative,
- commutual,
- companion,
- compensatory,
- complement,
- complemental,
- complementary,
- concerted,
- concordant,
- concurrent,
- concurring,
- congenator,
- congener,
- conjoint,
- conniving,
- convertible,
- cooperant,
- cooperating,
- cooperative,
- coordinate,
- correlate,
- correlative,
- correspondent,
- corresponding,
- counterpart,
- cyclic,
- decimal,
- differential,
- digital,
- double,
- duplicate,
- ecumenic,
- epochal,
- equal,
- equalizing,
- equipollent,
- equivalent,
- even,
- every other,
- exchanged,
- exponential,
- fellow,
- figural,
- figurate,
- figurative,
- finite,
- fractional,
- general,
- give-and-take,
- harmonious,
- harmonized,
- homologous,
- image,
- imaginary,
- impair,
- impossible,
- in common,
- infinite,
- integral,
- interchangeable,
- interchanged,
- intermittent,
- irrational,
- isochronal,
- joint,
- kindred spirit,
- like,
- likeness,
- logarithmic,
- logometric,
- match,
- mate,
- measured,
- metronomic,
- mutual,
- near duplicate,
- negative,
- noncompetitive,
- numeral,
- numerary,
- numerative,
- numeric,
- obverse,
- odd,
- ordinal,
- oscillatory,
- pair,
- parallel,
- pendant,
- periodical,
- permutable,
- picture,
- popular,
- positive,
- possible,
- prime,
- public,
- pulsing,
- punitive,
- radical,
- rational,
- real,
- reciprocating,
- reciprocative,
- recompensing,
- recompensive,
- recurrent,
- recurring,
- reparative,
- restitutive,
- retaliative,
- retaliatory,
- retributive,
- retributory,
- returnable,
- rhythmic,
- rotary,
- seasonal,
- second self,
- seesaw,
- serial,
- shared,
- similitude,
- simulacrum,
- sine wave,
- sister,
- social,
- socialistic,
- societal,
- soul mate,
- standard,
- steady,
- submultiple,
- such,
- suchlike,
- surd,
- swapped,
- switched,
- symbiotic,
- synergetic,
- synergic,
- synergistic,
- tally,
- tantamount,
- the like of,
- the likes of,
- to-and-fro,
- traded,
- transcendental,
- transposed,
- twin,
- uncompetitive,
- undulant,
- undulatory,
- up-and-down,
- wavelike,
- wheeling
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