Usually means: Offsetting or counterbalancing a deficiency.
Definitions Related words Phrases Mentions History
We found 25 dictionaries that define the word compensatory:

General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. compensatory: Merriam-Webster
  2. compensatory: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. compensatory: Collins English Dictionary
  4. Compensatory, compensatory: Wordnik
  5. compensatory: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. compensatory: Wiktionary
  7. compensatory: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  8. compensatory: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. compensatory: Dictionary.com
  10. Compensatory: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. compensatory: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  12. compensatory: Rhymezone
  13. Compensatory: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. compensatory: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  15. compensatory: FreeDictionary.org
  16. compensatory: TheFreeDictionary.com
  17. compensatory: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. compensatory: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. compensatory: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. compensatory: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. compensatory: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. compensatory: Medical dictionary

(Note: See compensate as well.)

Google, News, Images, Wikipedia, Reddit, BlueSky
Definitions from Wiktionary (
)
American English Definition British English Definition
▸ adjective:  (of a payment) Intended to recompense someone who has experienced loss, suffering, or injury
▸ adjective:  Reducing or offsetting the unpleasant or unwelcome effects of something
▸ adjective:  (genetics) That compensates for a deleterious mutation

Similar:
countervailing, counteractive, offsetting, Comp, recompensing, recompensive, redressive, makewhole, redemptory, condign, more...

Opposite:
non-compensatory, punitive, detrimental, disadvantageous

Types:
reparative, remedial, exonerative, redemptive, indemnifying, vindictive, more...

Phrases:
compensatory damages, compensatory education, compensatory hypertrophy, compensatory growth, compensatory lengthening, more...

Adjectives:
interactive, non, more, certain, very, bottom, large, integration, vicarious, less, likely

▸ Words similar to compensatory

▸ Usage examples for compensatory

▸ Idioms related to compensatory

▸ Wikipedia articles (New!)

▸ Popular nouns described by compensatory

▸ Words that often appear near compensatory

▸ Rhymes of compensatory

▸ Invented words related to compensatory

Similar:
countervailing, counteractive, offsetting, Comp, recompensing, recompensive, redressive, makewhole, redemptory, condign, more...

Opposite:
non-compensatory, punitive, detrimental, disadvantageous

Types:
reparative, remedial, exonerative, redemptive, indemnifying, vindictive, more...

Phrases:
compensatory damages, compensatory education, compensatory hypertrophy, compensatory growth, compensatory lengthening, compensatory pause, compensatory finance, compensatory spending, more...

Adjectives:
interactive, non, more, certain, very, bottom, large, integration, vicarious, less, likely



Writing poetry or lyrics? You can find related words that match a given meter.
This feature is permanently available from the "Related words" tab and from the Thesaurus.


(Click a button above to see words related to "compensatory" that fit the given meter.)



Home   Reverse Dictionary / Thesaurus   Datamuse   Word games   Spruce   Feedback   Dark mode   Random word   Help


Color thesaurus

Use OneLook to find colors for words and words for colors

See an example

Literary notes

Use OneLook to learn how words are used by great writers

See an example

Word games

Try our innovative vocabulary games

Play Now

Read the latest OneLook newsletter issue: Threepeat Redux