Retaliative
31retributive — Synonyms and related words: castigatory, chastening, chastising, compensating, compensative, compensatory, corrective, disciplinary, grueling, indemnificatory, inflictive, lucrative, moneymaking, paying, penal, penological, profitable, punishing …
32spiteful — Synonyms and related words: acrid, acrimonious, antagonistic, antipathetic, bearish, belligerent, bitchy, bitter, cankered, cantankerous, cattish, catty, caustic, churlish, clashing, colliding, conflicting, crabbed, cranky, cross, cross grained,… …
33retaliation — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Returning like for like Nouns 1. retaliation, reprisal, requital, counterstroke, retribution, compensation, reciprocation, reciprocity, retort, counterattack, recrimination, tit for tat, give and take,… …
34Retaliation — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Retaliation >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 retaliation retaliation reprisal retort Sgm: N 1 counter stroke counter stroke counter blast counterplot counter project Sgm: N 1 retribution retribution lex talionis …
35revengeful — re venge·ful || rɪ vendÊ’fÊŠl adj. desiring revenge, seeking vengeance, vindictive, retaliative …
36retaliate — [rɪ talɪeɪt] verb make an attack in return for a similar attack. Derivatives retaliation noun retaliative adjective retaliator noun retaliatory adjective Origin C17 (earlier (C16) as retaliation): from L. retaliat …
37retaliatory — a. Retaliative, revenging, vindictive …
38reciprocal — adj 1. mutual, Archaic. commutual, returned, exchanged, interchanged, reciprocative, reciprocatory; retaliative, retaliatory, requited, retributive; alternate, alternated, shared, give and take, to and fro, back and forth, Inf. flip flop. 2.… …
39revengeful — adj vindictive,, vengeful, spiteful, malicious, maleficient, malevolent, malignant, malign, rancorous; retributive, retaliative, retaliatory, recriminatory, reciprocal, avenging; envenomed, embittered, bitter, Inf. sore, peeved, hurt, offended,… …
40spiteful — adj vengeful, revengeful, unforgiving, vindictive, retributive, retaliative, retaliatory, recriminatory, out to get even, avenging; mean, cruel, malevolent, malicious, Archaic. despiteous; wanton, malignant, maleficent, malefic; antagonistic, ill …
