English Explanatory Dictionary

vindicatory

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Promoting or producing vindication.
  2. Promoting or producing retribution or punishment.

Word forms

vindicatory more vindicatory most vindicatory

Etymology

From vindicate + -ory.

Synonyms

absolutory disculpatory exonerative absolutionary absolving exculpatory vindicatory defensive justificatory punitive retributive vindictive castigatory punishmental punitory retaliatory retributionary retributory

Derived words

vindicatorily
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