• Of or pertaining to punishment; involving, awarding, orinflicting punishment; as, punitive law or justice.If death be punitive, so, likewise, is the necessity imposed upon manof toiling for his subsistence. I. Taylor.We shall dread a blow from the punitive hand. Bagehot.


    Punitive meaning & definition 1 of Punitive.


  • When [your girl] acts [vin]dicktively toward you, [just because] she can.

    Punitive meaning & definition 2 of Punitive.


  • Inflicting or intended as punishment.

    Punitive meaning & definition 3 of Punitive.

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