Retaliative
21corrective — I (progressive) adjective alternative, amendatory, analeptic, antidotal, assuasive, counteractive, curative, emendatory, healing, improving, medicinal, modifying, palliative, progressive, rectifying, reformative, reformatory, remedial,… …
22malevolent — I adjective acrimonious, actively opposed, adverse, aggressive, antagonistic, antipathetic, antipathetical, baleful, baneful, barbarous, bellicose, belligerent, bilious, bitter, bloodthirsty, brutal, churlish, cold, cold blooded, conspiratorial,… …
23ruthless — I adjective atrocious, barbarous, bloodthirsty, brutal, brutish, callous, cold, cold blooded, cold hearted, cruel, deadly, demoniac, devilish, diabolical, dispiteous, fell, feral, ferine, ferocious, fiendish, grim, hard, hardhearted, harsh,… …
24vindictive — I adjective angry, avenging, grudgeful, implacable, inclined to vengeance, malevolent, malicious, malignant, punitive, punitory, rancorous, resentful, retaliative, retaliatory, retributive, revengeful, spiteful, ulciscendi cupidus, unforgiving,… …
25compensatory — Synonyms and related words: amendatory, apologetic, ascetic, atoning, balancing, cleansing, compensating, compensational, compensative, counteracting, counteractive, counterbalancing, countervailing, expiatory, indemnificatory, lucrative, lustral …
26punitive — Synonyms and related words: avenging, castigating, castigatory, chastening, chastising, compensatory, correctional, corrective, disciplinary, grudgeful, grueling, implacable, inflictive, irreconcilable, penal, penological, punishing, punitory,… …
27reciprocal — Synonyms and related words: algorismic, algorithmic, aliquot, ally, alter ego, alternate, analogon, analogous, analogue, answering, associate, associated, back and forth, beating, brother, cardinal, changeable, circling, close copy, close match,… …
28reparative — Synonyms and related words: amendatory, analeptic, apologetic, ascetic, atoning, balancing, cleansing, compensating, compensational, compensative, compensatory, counteracting, counteractive, counterbalancing, countervailing, curative, expiatory,… …
29restitutive — Synonyms and related words: analeptic, apologetic, ascetic, atoning, cleansing, compensational, compensatory, curative, expiatory, indemnificatory, lustral, lustrational, lustrative, penitential, piacular, propitiatory, punitive, purgative,… …
30retaliatory — Synonyms and related words: amendatory, avenging, balancing, changeable, commutable, commutative, compensating, compensatory, convertible, counteracting, counteractive, counterbalancing, countervailing, equal, equalizing, equivalent, even,… …
