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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective retaliatory has 1 sense
- retaliatory(s = adj.all) relatiative, retributive, retributory, vindicatory - of or relating to or having the nature of retribution; "retributive justice demands an eye for an eye" Derived forms verb retaliate2, verb retaliate1
CIDE DICTIONARY
retaliatory, a.
Tending to, or involving, retaliation; retaliative; as retaliatory measures. [1913 Webster]
THESAURUS
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, vindictiveROGET THESAURUS
retaliatory
Retaliation
N retaliation, reprisal, retort, payback, counter- stroke, counter-blast, counterplot, counter-project, retribution, lex talionis, reciprocation, tit for tat, give and take, blow for blow, quid pro quo, a Roland for an Oliver, measure for measure, diamond cut diamond, the biter bit, a game at which two can play, reproof valiant, retort courteous, recrimination, revenge, compensation, reaction, retaliating, retaliatory, retaliative, talionic, in retaliation, en revanche, mutato nomine de te fabula narratur, par pari refero, tu quoque, you too, you're another, suo sibi gladio hunc jugulo, a beau jeu beau retour, litem _รง, lite resolvit.
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