Retaliatory

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
retaliatory
    adj 1: of or relating to or having the nature of retribution;
           "retributive justice demands an eye for an eye" [syn:
           {retaliatory}, {relatiative}, {retributive},
           {retributory}, {vindicatory}]
    
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Retaliatory \Re*tal"i*a*to*ry\, a.
   Tending to, or involving, retaliation; retaliative; as
   retaliatory measures.
   [1913 Webster]
    
from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
56 Moby Thesaurus words for "retaliatory":
      amendatory, avenging, balancing, changeable, commutable,
      commutative, compensating, compensatory, convertible,
      counteracting, counteractive, counterbalancing, countervailing,
      equal, equalizing, equivalent, even, exchanged, expiatory,
      give-and-take, grudgeful, implacable, indemnificatory,
      interchangeable, interchanged, irreconcilable, mutual, offsetting,
      penitential, permutable, punitive, punitory, rancorous, reciprocal,
      reciprocating, reciprocative, recompensing, recompensive,
      rectifying, reparative, restitutive, retaliative, retributive,
      retributory, returnable, revanchist, revengeful, standard, swapped,
      switched, traded, transposed, unappeasable, vengeful, vindicatory,
      vindictive

    

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