Retributive

Definitions: Retributive

Retributive

Adjective

1. Of or relating to or having the nature of retribution; "retributive justice demands an eye for an eye".

2. Given or inflicted in requital according to merits or deserts; "retributive justice".

Date "retributive" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1839. (references)

Synonyms: Retributive

Synonyms: avenging (adj), retributory (adj), vindicatory (adj). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Punishment	Verb: punish; chastise, chasten; castigate, correct, inflict punishment, administer correction, deal retributive justice; cowhide, lambaste.
	Discipline, infliction, trial; judgment; penalty; retribution; thunderbolt, Nemesis; requital; (reward); penology; retributive justice.
Reward	Adjective: remunerative, remuneratory; munerary, compensatory, retributive, reparatory; rewarding; satisfactory.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Retributive

English words defined with "retributive": Avengement. (references)

Etymologies containing "retributive": Avengement. (references)

Domain	Title
Books	Early Christian Historiography: Narratives of Retributive Justice (Studies in Religion) (reference) Karma, Causation and Retributive Morality: Conceptual Essays in Ethics and Metaethics (Icspr Series in Contemporary Indian Philosophy) (reference) Le carriere retributive nel pubblico impiego (reference) Punishment vs. reconciliation : retributive justice and social justice in the light of social ethics (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

"Retributive" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Retributive" is used about 48 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	100%	48	49,194

Expression using "retributive": retributive justice. Additional references.
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Language		Translations for "retributive"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		ndëshkues (punitive). (various references)

Arabic		‏منتقم (avenger, revengeful, revenger, vengeful), ‏عقابي (penal, punitive), ‏عدالة توزيعية. (various references)

Bulgarian		служещ за наказание, наказателен (foul, penal, vindicatory, vindictive). (various references)

Czech		odvetný (retaliatory). (various references)

French		vengeur (revengeful, Revenger), distributif, de punition, de châtiment. (various references)

German		vergeltend (reciprocating, repaying, requiting, retaliating, retaliative, rewarding). (various references)

Greek		ανταποδοτικόσ (reciprocating), τιμωρόσ (castigator, punisher, scourger). (various references)

Hungarian		megtorló (punitive, retaliatory). (various references)

Pig Latin		etributiveray

Portuguese		vingador (avenger, Revenger, vindictive), punitivo (punitive), justiceiro (righteous). (various references)

Romanian		rãzbunãtor (avengeful, avenger, malicious, revengeful, spiteful, vengeful, vindictive), care rãsplãteşte (remunerative). (various references)

Russian		карательный (penal, punitive, punitory, vindicatory, vindictive). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		odmazdni, kazneni (penal, penitentiary, punitive, vindicatory). (various references)

Spanish		de castigo (punitive), castigador (castigator, penal, punisher). (various references)

Swedish		vedergällnings- (retaliatory). (various references)

Turkish		kinci (grudger, grudging, rancorous, resentful, revengeful, spiteful, vengeful, vindictive), intikamcı (avenger, revanchist, revengeful, vengeful, vindicative), cezalandırıcı (punitive). (various references)

Ukranian		каральний (punitive, retaliatory, vindictive). (various references)

Vietnamese		trừng phạt (castigatory, punishable, punitive, punitory, retributory), để đền đáp (retributory). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "retributive": retributively. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "b-e-e-i-i-r-r-t-t-u-v"
	-2 letters: butterier.
	-3 letters: bitterer, rebutter, tirrivee.
	-4 letters: bittier, brevier, bruiter, burette, reutter, riveter, riviere, ruttier, tribute, utterer.
	-5 letters: better, bitter, brevet, burier, butter, reiver, retire, reverb, revert, ribier, riever, ritter, rubier, terret, territ, trevet, triter, trivet, turbit, turret, ureter, verier, verite, virtue.
	Words containing the letters "b-e-e-i-i-r-r-t-t-u-v"
	+2 letters: retributively.
	+3 letters: redistributive.
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