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compensatory

Syllables: com·pen·sat·o·ry/kɒmpɛnˈseɪtəɹi/US/kəmˈpɛnsəˌtɔɹi/

compensatory adjective: intended to recompense someone who has experienced loss, suffering, or injury.

Adjective

compensatory (not comparable)

  1. Intended to recompense someone who has experienced loss, suffering, or injury.
  2. Reducing or offsetting the unpleasant or unwelcome effects of something.
    • As long as the oppressed class does not possess the initiative but is restricted mainly to defensive action, it is apt to develop the compensatory idea that it is bound to triumph sooner or later because of 'historical laws', and that history is 'objectively' on its side.1978 [1976], Leszek Kołakowski, translated by P[aul] S[teven] Falla, Main Currents of Marxism, volume III: The Breakdown, Oxford: Clarendon Press, translation of Główne nurty marksizmu: rozkład (in...
  3. That compensates for a deleterious mutation.

compensatory meaning in Tamil

compensatory in Tamil

ஈடு செய்யும்

Origin of compensatory

Borrowed from French compensatoire. By surface analysis, compensate + -ory.

Words formed from compensatory

Phrases with compensatory

Questions about compensatory

What does compensatory mean?
Compensatory means intended to recompense someone who has experienced loss, suffering, or injury.
What is compensatory in Tamil?
Compensatory in Tamil is ஈடு செய்யும். See Compensatory meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is compensatory?
Compensatory is an adjective.
How do you pronounce compensatory?
Compensatory is pronounced /kɒmpɛnˈseɪtəɹi/ (UK).

Words near compensatory in the dictionary

  1. compensatorily lengthen
  2. compensatorily lengthened
  3. compensatorily lengthening
  4. compensatorily lengthens
  5. compensators
  6. compensatory
  7. compensatory lengthening
  8. compensatory lengthenings
  9. compensatory time
  10. compensatory times
  11. compense

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Adapted from Wiktionary: compensatory (page history and authors); compensatory (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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