Words and phrases that have a meaning related to retributive: (122 results)
Often used in the same context:
punitive, reformative, vengeful, condign, exclusionist, motiveless, premeditated, ameliorative, rageful, perverse, murderous, anarchical, assimilative, ethnocentric, vindictive, reactionary, unpremeditated, causeless, revanchist, savage, unthoughtful, retaliatory, unwarrantable, revengeful, latent hostility, opprobrious, misguided, coercive, inquisitional, persecutory, unmannerly, justifiable, justificatory, reductio ad absurdum, ethnic cleansing, cultic, wanton, unreasoned, delusive, irrational, egoistical, positivistic, nietzschean, mindless, delusory, unconfessed, particularistic, indiscriminate, malfeasant, reparative, brutal, spiteful, barbaric, remorseless, recriminatory, captious, demagogical, barbarous, anomic, senseless, nihilistic, formalistic, purposive, meanspirited, civilizing, heinous, universalistic, dualist, unreligious, purposeful, contumacious, dastard, totalistic, depersonalized, fissiparous, deliberate, bestial, militaristic, softheaded, accusative, divisionary, pernicious, rational, righteous, inefficacious, dehumanised, tribalistic, reductionist, de jure segregation, millennialist, atavistic, retrogressive, misogynous, callous, benthamite, subjectivist, redemptive, assimilationist, unoffending, counterproductive, aberrant, teleological, utilitarian, consequentialist, normative, regulative, voluntarist, exclusionary, pragmatic, soteriological, tive, voluntaristic, aesthetic, jural, juridical, repressive, unifying
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Also try:avenging, just, reciprocal, retributory, vindicatory
— Nouns for retributive: justice, punishment, theory, action, principle, violence, view, providence, emotions, theories, vengeance, more...
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