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retributive

adj. given or inflicted in requital according to merits or deserts; "retributive justice"

vindicatory, retributive, avenging

adj. given or inflicted in requital according to merits or deserts; "retributive justice"

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conscionable

adj. acceptable to your conscience

fitting, meet, suitable

adj. being precisely fitting and right; "it is only meet that she should be seated first"

rightful

adj. legally valid; "a rightful inheritance"

complementary, interchangeable

adj. "reciprocal electric outlets"

complementary

adj. of words or propositions so related that each is the negation of the other; "`male' and `female' are complementary terms"

correlative

adj. expressing a reciprocal or complementary relation; "correlative conjunctions"

interactive, interactional

adj. capable of acting on or influencing each other

inverse

adj. opposite in nature or effect or relation to another quantity ; "a term is in inverse proportion to another term if it increases (or decreases) as the other decreases (or increases)"

mutual

adj. experienced or expressed by each toward the other: "mutual trust"

reciprocating, reciprocatory

adj. moving alternately backward and forward

reciprocative

adj. given or done or owed to each other

requited

adj. returned in kind: "requited love"

retaliative, retaliatory

adj. of or relating to or having the nature of retribution; "retributive justice demands an eye for an eye"

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retributory

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