Word:
Browse
Punica
Punica granatum
Punicaceae
Punice
Puniceous
punily
Puniness
Punish
Punishable
punished
Punisher
punishing
punishingly
Punishment
Punishment of death
Punition
-- Punitive --
punitive damages
punitively
punitorily
Punitory
Punjab
Punjabi
Punk
punk rock
punk rocker
Punka
punkah
punkey
Punkie
Punkin
Punkling
punks

Punitive

Pu´ni`tive
a.1.Of or pertaining to punishment; involving, awarding, or inflicting punishment; as, punitive law or justice.
If death be punitive, so, likewise, is the necessity imposed upon man of toiling for his subsistence.
- I. Taylor.
We shall dread a blow from the punitive hand.
- Bagehot.
Adj.1.punitive - inflicting punishment; "punitive justice"; "punitive damages"
Synonyms: punitory
Antonyms:
rehabilitative - designed to accomplish rehabilitation; "from a penal to a rehabilitative philosophy"- J.B.Costello; "rehabilitative treatment"
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

About this site and copyright information - Online Dictionary Home