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[syn: retaliatory, relatiative, retributive, retributory, vindicatory]
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]
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]
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