| Inflictive (a.) Causing infliction; acting as an infliction. Thesaurus Entries Fabian, adjuvant, aid, alterative, analeptic, antidote, assistance, balm, balsam, castigatory, chastening, chastising, counteractant, counteractive, counteragent, countermeasure, counterstep, curative, cure, disciplinary, emendatory, gradualistic, grueling, healing, healing agent, healing quality, help, iatric, inflictive, medicative, medicinal, melioristic, penal, penological, prescription, punishing, punitive, punitory, radical, receipt, recipe, reformational, reformative, reformatory, reformist, reformistic, relief, remedial, remedial measure, remedy, restorative, retributive, revisional, revisionist, revisory, revolutionary, sanative, sanatory, sovereign remedy, specific, specific remedy, succor, therapeutic, theriac, utopian | ![]() |