What is another word for punishment?
Synonyms for punishment
ˈpʌn ɪʃ məntpun·ish·ment
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Wiktionary
punishmentnoun
Synonyms:
punition, castigation, beatingAntonyms:
rewardpunishmentnoun
The act or process of punishing, imposing and/or applying a sanction.
Synonyms:
beating, castigation, punitionAntonyms:
rewardpunishmentnoun
A penalty to punish wrongdoing, especially for crime.
Synonyms:
beating, punition, castigationAntonyms:
rewardpunishmentnoun
A suffering by pain or loss imposed as retribution
Synonyms:
castigation, punition, beatingAntonyms:
rewardpunishmentnoun
Any treatment or experience so harsh it feels like being punished; rough handling
a vehicle that can take a lot of punishment
Synonyms:
beating, punition, castigationAntonyms:
reward
English Synonyms and Antonyms
punishment
Synonyms:
cruelty, hardness, harshness, implacability, justice, penalty, revenge, rigor, severity, sternness, vengeanceAntonyms:
benevolence, benignity, blessing, clemency, compassion, favor, forbearance, forgiveness, gentleness, grace, kindness, lenience, leniency, lenity, mercy, mildness, pardon, pardon, pity, tenderness
Princeton's WordNet
punishment, penalty, penalization, penalisationnoun
the act of punishing
Synonyms:
penalty, penalization, penalisation
Matched Categories
Dictionary of English Synonymes
punishmentnoun
Synonyms:
chastisement, correction, discipline, penalty
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
punishmentnoun
Synonyms:
chastisement, castigation, scourging, discipline, penalty, visitation, retaliation, retribution, inflictionAntonyms:
immunity, impunity, acquittal, exonerationAssociated words:
penal, penology, punitive, penologist, penological, reprieve, commute, commutation, nemesis, connivance
PPDB, the paraphrase database
List of paraphrases for "punishment":
penalty, chastisement, sentence, sanction, penalties, punish, sentences, suppression, retribution, punishing, assent, sanctions, worth, death, repression, penalization, corporal, punishments, tangible, pity, sentencing, pena, penalisation
Words popularity by usage frequency
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#967 | death | |
#1708 | worth | |
#1818 | justice | |
#4717 | sentence | |
#4806 | penalty | |
#7790 | punishment | |
#7997 | penalties | |
#8299 | revenge | |
#9211 | sentences | |
#10009 | severity | |
#10321 | sanctions | |
#10348 | beating | |
#12650 | suppression | |
#13539 | tangible | |
#13860 | sentencing | |
#14886 | pity | |
#16279 | vengeance | |
#17439 | punish | |
#18006 | cruelty | |
#19712 | sanction | |
#20304 | repression | |
#20803 | hardness | |
#22513 | corporal | |
#24578 | assent | |
#31844 | pena | |
#32471 | punishing | |
#33112 | punishments | |
#33262 | retribution | |
#38903 | rigor | |
#70255 | harshness | |
#82122 | chastisement | |
#233771 | sternness | |
#270402 | penalization | |
#283674 | castigation |
How to use punishment in a sentence?
. Earlier on Wednesday, Scotts 17-year-old son made an emotional plea for the judge to sentence Slager to the maximum punishment of life in prison. My dad will never see my future kids, his grandchildren, and I know he would have loved them as much as he loved me, i still can’t believe he’s gone.
The defendants are well-known celebrities and friends, but the chat they've had showed that they simply considered women as objects of sexual pleasure, and committed crimes that were extremely serious, strict punishment is inevitable as the damage inflicted has not properly been recovered and the victims demand harsh penalties.
Perhaps it can be established that, due to exceptional circumstances, this fate was a just and proportionate punishment for the crime Henry Montgomery committed as a 17 year old boy.
There is a presumption of guilt and a punishment of success that this industry has achieved that I have never witnessed in my life.
I also offer encouragement to all those who are convinced that a just and necessary punishment must never exclude the dimension of hope and the goal of rehabilitation.
Translations for punishment
From our Multilingual Translation Dictionary
- عقاب, عقوبةArabic
- puniment, càstig, punicióCatalan, Valencian
- trestCzech
- Strafe, BestrafungGerman
- τιμωρία, ποινήGreek
- punoEsperanto
- penitencia, castigoSpanish
- گوشمالی دادنPersian
- rankaiseminen, rangaistusFinnish
- punitionFrench
- pionósIrish
- peanas, peanasachadhScottish Gaelic
- castigo, puniciónGalician
- सज़ा, दण्डHindi
- büntetésHungarian
- պատիժArmenian
- punizioneItalian
- 罰, 懲罰, 処罰, 刑罰Japanese
- poenaLatin
- sodīšana, sodsLatvian
- казнување, казнаMacedonian
- boete, bestraffing, boetedoening, afstraffing, vergelding, straf, beproevingDutch
- wycisk, karanie, karaPolish
- castigo, puniçãoPortuguese
- pedeapsă, pedepsire, pedeapsă punitivă, penalizareRomanian
- кара, наказаниеRussian
- ка̏зна, kȁznaSerbo-Croatian
- kazenSlovene
- straffSwedish
- தண்டனைTamil
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