Compensatory

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Compensatory \Com*pen"sa*to*ry\, a.
     Serving for compensation; making amends. --Jer. Taylor.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  compensatory
       adj : compensating for [syn: {countervailing}, {offsetting}, {compensative}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  62 Moby Thesaurus words for "compensatory":
     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