Retributive

//ɹɪˈtɹɪ.bjʊ.tɪv//

Synonyms for "retributive" (49 found)

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Closest matches (10)

retaliative castigatory chastening chastising compensating compensative compensatory corrective disciplinary grueling

Strong matches (15)

indemnificatory inflictive just lucrative moneymaking paying penal penological profitable punishing punitive punitory reciprocal recompensing recompensive

Related words (24)

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retaliative

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nonretributive retributively retributiveness retributivism retributivist unretributive

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retribution

related to

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retaliatory retribution

similar

4 entries

just punitive punitory

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When the trusted confidant of the person who conducted a hostile takeover of the company betrayed him, it was a sort of retributive justice.

Source: tatoeba (25720)

Their goal is retributive: to exact a price from Palestinian civilians (and in some cases left-wing Israeli Jews, Christians, and Israeli security forces) for actions Israeli authorities take against the settlers, usually building enforcement in illegally built settlements.

Source: wiktionary

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