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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