Definitions For Retaliative

adjective

  • Of or relating to or having the nature of retribution

verb

  • To do something bad to someone who has hurt you or treated you badly : to get revenge against someone

Is Retaliative a Scrabble Word?

Words With Friends YES
Scrabble US YES
Scrabble UK YES
English International (SOWPODS) YES
Scrabble Global YES
Enable1 Dictionary YES

Points in Different Games

Scrabble
14
Words with Friends
16

The word Retaliative is worth 14 points in Scrabble and 16 points in Words with Friends

Examples of Retaliative in a Sentence

  • After the company announced plans to reduce benefits, the union threatened to retaliate by calling for a strike.
  • Retaliated his neighbor's malicious destruction of his flower garden by cutting down the man's prize apple tree

Synonyms for Retaliative

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