Punitive

Adjective

 * 1)  inflicting punishment, punishing
 * Washington imposed punitive sanctions on Syria.
 * The jury awarded $10,000 in punitive damages.

Thesaurus
avenging, castigating, castigatory, chastening, chastising, compensatory, correctional, corrective, disciplinary, grudgeful, grueling, implacable, inflictive, irreconcilable, penal, penological, punishing, punitory, rancorous, reciprocal, recompensing, recompensive, reparative, restitutive, retaliative, retaliatory, retributive, retributory, revanchist, revengeful, unappeasable, vengeful, vindicatory, vindictive

Etymology
Medieval punitivus, from punire to punish.

Translations

 * Czech:
 * Dutch: straf-


 * Greek:
 * Polish: karny

Related terms

 * punishment
 * punitive damages
 * punitively

Anagrams

 * punitevi