| a. | 1. | Tending or serving to vindicate or justify; justificatory; vindicative. |
| 2. | Inflicting punishment; avenging; punitory. |
| Adj. | 1. | vindicatory - of or relating to or having the nature of retribution; "retributive justice demands an eye for an eye" |
| 2. | vindicatory - given or inflicted in requital according to merits or deserts; "retributive justice" Synonyms: retributive, retributory | |
| 3. | vindicatory - providing justification Synonyms: justificative, justificatory |