What is another word for recriminative?

Pronunciation: [ɹɪkɹˈɪmɪnətˌɪv] (IPA)

Recriminative refers to an argument or accusation made in response to another one. Synonyms for this word include retaliatory, retaliative, counter-accusatory, blaming, accusatory, reproaching, and fault-finding. These terms depict the various accusations and finger-pointing that can occur in a heated or contentious situation. They are often used in legal cases, political debates, or personal conflicts where two parties are trying to prove their innocence or blame the other party for wrongdoing. Each synonym conveys the sense of a back-and-forth dialog, where each person is trying to defend themselves or make the other person look bad. Despite the negative connotation of these words, they are essential for expressing the complicated dynamics of human relationships and interactions.

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What are the hypernyms for Recriminative?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

What are the opposite words for recriminative?

Recriminative means to accuse or blame someone for something. The antonyms for recriminative include exculpatory, absolving, acquitting, and pardoning. Exculpatory refers to evidence or testimony that clears someone of blame. Absolving means to relieve someone of guilt or obligation. Acquitting means to find someone not guilty of a crime. Pardoning means to forgive or excuse someone for an offense. These antonyms suggest the opposite of recriminative, indicating a sense of forgiveness, exoneration, or innocence. Using these antonyms in place of recriminative can shift the tone of a sentence from accusatory to conciliatory, emphasizing compassion and understanding rather than judgment and blame.

What are the antonyms for Recriminative?

Usage examples for Recriminative

Each declared that he would "rather die than be talked to death"; and then, as the two approached a point bluntly recriminative, Whitey coughed again, whereupon they were miraculously silent, and went into the passageway in a perfectly amiable manner.
"Penrod and Sam"
Booth Tarkington
She recognised as she had never before recognised those qualities in Jim which, she felt, should have at least won from her a less recriminative tone than she had, the night before, assumed toward him.
"Running Sands"
Reginald Wright Kauffman

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