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Synonyms for penal
ˈpin lpe·nal
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Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms
penal
Synonyms:
retributive, coercive, visitatorial, castigatory, inflictive, corrective, punitiveAntonyms:
remunerative, reparatory, decorative, honorary
Princeton's WordNet
penaladjective
of or relating to punishment
"penal reform"; "penal code"
Synonyms:
punishableAntonyms:
legal, rehabilitativepenaladjective
serving as or designed to impose punishment
"penal servitude"
Synonyms:
punishableAntonyms:
legal, rehabilitativepenal, punishableadjective
subject to punishment by law
"a penal offense"
Synonyms:
punishableAntonyms:
legal, rehabilitative
Dictionary of English Synonymes
penaladjective
Synonyms:
punitive
PPDB, the paraphrase database
List of paraphrases for "penal":
criminal, pénal, penitentiary, sanctions, prison, punitive, correctional, penalties, penale
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#2384 | criminal | |
#4390 | prison | |
#7997 | penalties | |
#10321 | sanctions | |
#13548 | corrective | |
#15723 | correctional | |
#21027 | penal | |
#21180 | punitive | |
#28149 | punishable | |
#37633 | coercive | |
#44315 | penitentiary | |
#152459 | retributive | |
#309278 | penale |
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North Korea has a very strict and very extensive penal code.
Even if the reports about Navalny being transferred to the Melekhovo Penal Colony are true, it is hardly a relief. This colony is known to be one of the toughest and most torturous in Russia, before Navalny’s appeal to a nine-year sentence in a maximum-security prison was upheld, there were already rumors he would be transferred to this colony.
I think its a pity that they have closed what could have been a model prison, they were self-supporting, they (inmates) were producing. They grew vegetables. They had cattle, goats, pigs. There was a fish farm and a salt works ... the problem was political, the authorities decided not to continue as a penal colony, and so little by little it fell apart.
We followed the trial carefully and the convicts had been saying that the murder was a planned one, we expected that they would get the heaviest punishment in the Rwanda penal code.
For me, it's all about driving. The fairways are generous in some spots. Some holes are narrow. But you've got to hit the fairways here, the rough is pretty penal. It's not super deep, but it's just really thick, and you've just got to drive it straight. I like the golf course. It sets up well for me. I feel like I can drive it good around here.
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