Synonyms for compensatory


Grammar : Adj
Spell : kuh m-pen-suh-tawr-ee, -tohr-ee
Phonetic Transcription : kəmˈpɛn səˌtɔr i, -ˌtoʊr i


Définition of compensatory

Origin :
  • c.1600, from French compensatoire, from Latin compensatus, past participle of compensare (see compensate). Psychological sense is from 1921.
  • adj compensative
Example sentences :
  • For the same reason we cannot speak of compensatory masturbation in woman.
  • Extract from : « The Sexual Question » by August Forel
  • Then came the compensatory thought of what had been accomplished.
  • Extract from : « Ox-Team Days on the Oregon Trail » by Ezra Meeker
  • If you commit a tort, you are liable to pay a compensatory sum.
  • Extract from : « The Path of the Law » by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • On the other hand there would be compensatory advantages not to be ignored.
  • Extract from : « The Easiest Way » by Eugene Walter and Arthur Hornblow
  • They have compensatory perception of a kind that is still quite mysterious.
  • Extract from : « Legacy » by James H Schmitz
  • There are compensatory moments in life, and this was one of them.
  • Extract from : « A Secret of the Lebombo » by Bertram Mitford
  • When a court does award damages, the award may be "compensatory" or "punitive."
  • Extract from : « What Works: Schools Without Drugs » by United States Department of Education
  • Thus religion takes more account of experience than compensatory philosophy; it does not de-realize existent evil.
  • Extract from : « Creative Intelligence » by John Dewey, Addison W. Moore, Harold Chapman Brown, George H. Mead, Boyd H. Bode, Henry Waldgrave, Stuart James, Hayden Tufts, Horace M. Kallen
  • It does not use up vital energies like the expressive idea, it is not an abortion of them, like the compensatory idea.
  • Extract from : « Creative Intelligence » by John Dewey, Addison W. Moore, Harold Chapman Brown, George H. Mead, Boyd H. Bode, Henry Waldgrave, Stuart James, Hayden Tufts, Horace M. Kallen
  • Althea had felt warmed by the compensatory brightness it cast about her.
  • Extract from : « Franklin Kane » by Anne Douglas Sedgwick

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