punitive

Meaning of punitive

adjective
  1. Inflicting punishment, punishing
    The jury awarded $10,000 in punitive damages.

Information about punitive

  • It is an adjective.
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Hyphenation of punitive

puni-tive

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 8 chars.
  • punitive is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

punitive synonyms

Meaning punitory:

punitory

Words that rhyme with punitive

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