Punitive

3 definitions found

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

  Punitive \Pu"ni*tive\, a.
     Of or pertaining to punishment; involving, awarding, or
     inflicting punishment; as, punitive law or justice.
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           If death be punitive, so, likewise, is the necessity


           imposed upon man of toiling for his subsistence. -- I.
                                                    Taylor.
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           We shall dread a blow from the punitive hand.
                                                    --Bagehot.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  punitive
       adj : inflicting punishment; "punitive justice"; "punitive
             damages" [syn: {punitory}] [ant: {rehabilitative}]

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

  34 Moby Thesaurus words for "punitive":
     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