Punitive

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Inflicting or aiming to inflict punishment; punishing.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. inflicting punishment, punishing
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Of or pertaining to punishment; involving, awarding, or inflicting punishment.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Pertaining to or involving punishment; awarding or inflicting punishment: as, punitive law or justice.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. inflicting punishment
    • Equivalent
    vindicatory    penitentiary    retributive    correctional    relatiative    retributory    penal    retaliatory   
    Cross Reference
    punitive damages   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    corrective    punitory    disciplinary    castigatory    castigative    retributive    vindictive    vindicatory   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    retaliatory    discriminatory    restrictive    proscriptive    coercive    burdensome    penal    drastic    repressive    disciplinary   
     
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