- Types Of Speech
- You can use retributive as a adjective satellite in a sentence.
- About Retributive
- A 4 syllables adjective satellite and 11 letters with the letters b, e, i, r, t, u, and v, 6 consonants, 5 vowels and 4 syllables with the middle letter b. Retributive starts with a consonant and ends with a vowel with the starting letters r, re, ret, retr, retri, and the ending characters are e, ve, ive, tive, utive, ..
- Definition
- Given or inflicted in requital according to merits or deserts; "retributive justice"
- Pig Latin
- Retributive in Pig Latin is said as "etributiveray or etributiverway".
- Unigram
- r | e | t | r | i | b | u | t | i | v | e
- Bigram
- re | et | tr | ri | ib | bu | ut | ti | iv | ve
- Trigram
- ret | etr | tri | rib | ibu | but | uti | tiv | ive
- Quadrigram
- retr | etri | trib | ribu | ibut | buti | utiv | tive
- Word Gram
- Adjective Satellite Examples
- given or inflicted in requital according to merits or deserts;
"retributive justice" - of or relating to or having the nature of retribution;
"retributive justice demands an eye for an eye"
| Synonym | Definition |
|---|---|
| Appreciated | fully understood or grasped "dangers not yet appreciated" "these apprehended truths" "a thing comprehended is a thing known as fully as it can be known" |
| Arduous | difficult to accomplish demanding considerable mental effort and skill "the arduous work of preparing a dictionary" |
| Backbreaking | characterized by toilsome effort to the point of exhaustion especially physical effort "worked their arduous way up the mining valley" "a grueling campaign" "hard labor" "heavy work" "heavy going" "spent many laborious hours on the project" "set a |
| Castigatory | |
| Chastening | a rebuke for making a mistake |
| Chastising | |
| Compensable | for which money is paid "a paying job" "remunerative work" "salaried employment" "stipendiary services" |
| Compensating | |
| Compensative | compensating for |
| Compensatory | compensating for |
View all cognitive synonyms for Retributive
| Anagram | Definition |
|---|---|
| Retributive | given or inflicted in requital according to merits or deserts "retributive justice" |
View English words with the unique letters used in retributive. Words With The Letters Beirtuv
| Similar Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| Just | free from favoritism or self-interest or bias or deception; or conforming with established standards or rules; "a fair referee"; "fair deal"; "on a fair footing"; "a fair fight"; "by fair means or foul" |
Retributive Is In These Word Lists
- Starts With R
- Ends With E

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