retributive
adjective
1 retributive
Of or relating to or having the nature of retribution:
— Retributive justice demands an eye for an eye.
synonyms: retaliative, retaliatory, retributory, vindicatory.
Roget 973: remunerative, remuneratory; munerary†, compensatory, retributive, reparatory†; rewarding; satisfactory.
2 retributive
Given or inflicted in requital according to merits or deserts:
— Retributive justice.
synonyms: retributory, vindicatory.
Moby thesaurus: castigatory, chastening, chastising, compensating, compensative, compensatory, corrective, disciplinary, grueling, indemnificatory, inflictive, lucrative, moneymaking, paying, penal, penological, profitable, punishing, punitive, punitory ... show more.
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