| Main Entry: | disciplinary |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | corrective |
Synonyms: |
ordered, punishing, punitive |
| Main Entry: | corrective |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | healing, curing |
Synonyms: |
antidotal, counteracting, curative, disciplinary, palliative, penal, punitive, reformatory, rehabilitative, remedial, restorative, therapeutic |
Antonyms: |
harmful, hurtful, hurting, injurious, paining |
| Main Entry: | punitive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | concerning punishment |
Synonyms: |
castigating, correctional, disciplinary, in reprisal, in retaliation, penal, punishing, punitory, retaliative, retaliatory, revengeful, vindictive |
| Notes: | penal means 'relating to punishment' while punitive means 'serving to punish' |
Antonyms: |
beneficial, rewarding |
| Main Entry: | stern |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | serious, authoritarian |
Synonyms: |
ascetic, astringent, austere, bitter, bullheaded, by the book, cruel, disciplinary, dyed-in-the-wool, flinty, forbidding, frowning, grim, hang-tough, hard, hard-boiled, hard-core, hard-line, hard-nosed, hard-shell, hardheaded, harsh, implacable, inexorable, inflexible, mortified, mulish, relentless, rigid, rigorous, rough, severe, steely, stiff-necked, strict, stubborn, tough, unrelenting, unsparing, unyielding |
Antonyms: |
cheerful, funny, lenient, light, smiling, tolerant |
| Main Entry: | strict |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | authoritarian |
Synonyms: |
austere, dead set, disciplinary, dour, draconian*, exacting, firm, forbidding, grim, hard, hard-boiled, harsh, iron-fisted, no-nonsense, oppressive, picky, prudish, punctilious, puritanical, rigid, rigorous, scrupulous, set, severe, square, stern, stickling, straight, strait-laced, stringent, stuffy, tough, unpermissive, unsparing, uptight* |
Antonyms: |
amenable, easy-going, flexible, lenient, tolerant, tractable, yielding |
| Main Entry: | homiletic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | persuasive |
Synonyms: |
admonitory, didactic, disciplinary, disquisitional, doctrinal, edifying, expository, instructional, instructive, moralizing, preaching, sermonic, sermonizing, teaching |
| Main Entry: | punitory |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | punishing |
Synonyms: |
castigating, correctional, disciplinary, in reprisal, in retaliation, penal, retaliative, retaliatory, revengeful, vindictive |
| Main Entry: | reformative |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | corrective |
Synonyms: |
amendatory, antidotal, counteracting, curative, disciplinary, emendatory, palliative, penal, punitive, reformatory, rehabilitative, remedial, restorative, therapeutic |