correctional

inflicting, involving, or serving as punishment threatened to take correctional measures if the household chores were not done the state's largest correctional institution Synonyms castigating, chastening, chastising, correcting, punitive, corrective, disciplinary, disciplining, penal, penalizingRelated Words retaliative, retaliatory, retributive, retributory, revengeful; vengeful, wrathfulNear Antonyms compensatory; acquitting, exculpating, exculpatory, exonerating, vindicating; absolving, condoning, pardoning, remitting; commuting, reprievingAntonyms nonpunitive