retaliatory

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: re=tal=i=a=to=ry

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, vindictive

ROGET 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 _ç, lite resolvit.