Word Meanings - PUNITIVE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Of or pertaining to punishment; involving, awarding, or inflicting punishment; as, punitive law or justice. If death be punitive, so, likewise, is the necessity imposed upon man of toiling for his subsistence. I. Taylor. We shall dread a blow from

Additional info about word: PUNITIVE

Of or pertaining to punishment; involving, awarding, or inflicting punishment; as, punitive law or justice. If death be punitive, so, likewise, is the necessity imposed upon man of toiling for his subsistence. I. Taylor. We shall dread a blow from the punitive hand. Bagehot.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of PUNITIVE)

• Penal
• Retributive
• coercive
• visitatorial
• castigatory
• inflictive
• corrective
• punitive

Related words: (words related to PUNITIVE)

• PENAL
  Of or pertaining to punishment, to penalties, or to crimes and offenses; pertaining to criminal jurisprudence: as: Enacting or threatening punishment; as, a penal statue; the penal code. Incurring punishment; subject to a penalty; as, a penalact
• COERCIVE
  Serving or intended to coerce; having power to constrain. -- Co*er"cive*ly, adv. -- Co*er"cive*ness, n. Coercive power can only influence us to outward practice. Bp. Warburton. Coercive or Coercitive force , the power or force which in iron or
• PENALITY
  The quality or state of being penal; lability to punishment. Sir T. Browne.
• RETRIBUTIVE; RETRIBUTORY
  Of or pertaining to retribution; of the nature of retribution; involving retribution or repayment; as, retributive justice; retributory comforts.
• PUNITIVE
  Of or pertaining to punishment; involving, awarding, or inflicting punishment; as, punitive law or justice. If death be punitive, so, likewise, is the necessity imposed upon man of toiling for his subsistence. I. Taylor. We shall dread a blow from
• CASTIGATORY
  Punitive in order to amendment; corrective.
• VISITATORIAL
  Of or pertaining to visitation, or a judicial visitor or superintendent; visitorial. An archdeacon has visitatorial power. Ayliffe. The queen, however, still had over the church a visitatorial power of vast and undefined extent. Macaulay.
• PENALLY
  In a penal manner.
• PENALIZE
  To put a penalty on. See Penalty, 3. (more info) 1. To make penal.
• INFLICTIVE
  Causing infliction; acting as an infliction. Whitehead.
• PENALTY
  1. Penal retribution; punishment for crime or offense; the suffering in person or property which is annexed by law or judicial decision to the commission of a crime, offense, or trespass. Death is the penalty imposed. Milton. 2. The suffering,
• CORRECTIVE
  1. Having the power to correct; tending to rectify; as, corrective penalties. Mulberries are pectoral, corrective of billious alkali. Arbuthnot. 2. Qualifying; limiting. "The Psalmist interposeth . . . this corrective particle." Holdsworth.