punitive

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
punitive
    adj 1: inflicting punishment; "punitive justice"; "punitive
           damages" [syn: {punitive}, {punitory}] [ant:
           {rehabilitative}]
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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 Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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
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