compensatory

Definitions

Serving to pay back or make up for a loss, injury, or deficiency.

Relating to or providing compensation, typically in the form of money.

Examples

The company offered a compensatory payment to the employees who were affected by the sudden restructuring.

Her intense focus on academics served as a compensatory mechanism for her lack of social confidence.

Synonyms

reparative remedial indemnifying offsetting balancing redressive recompensing

Antonyms

damaging detrimental uncompensated harmful injurious unbalanced disadvantageous