Adjective vindicatory has 3 senses
- retaliatory, relatiative, retributive, retributory, vindicatory - of or relating to or having the nature of retribution; "retributive justice demands an eye for an eye"
Antonym: rehabilitative (indirect, via punitive)
- retributive, retributory, vindicatory - given or inflicted in requital according to merits or deserts; "retributive justice"
Antonym: unjust (indirect, via just)
- justificative, justificatory, vindicatory - providing justification
Antonyms: inculpatory, inculpative (indirect, via exculpatory)
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