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:
punishment, 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?
Discipline probably communicates more loudly than the mere words in a rules book what the organization values. If the organization values its rules, it will discipline those who violate them... The owners and then Tom Brady should face the most severe punishment.
A lot of people who are Justin Paperny level, first of all, don't believe that they did anything wrong and certainly don't think they deserve any kind of punishment, and when they do get punishment, they don't believe they deserve this kind of punishment, and they go into prison with this' holier than thou' attitude.
He deserves the same punishment as the four who've been given the death penalty, it should set a historic example in society that if you treat women and girls this way, no one will be spared.
I can not think of anything that's more awful, unspeakable and wrong for a government to do than to use its power to execute somebody who didn't commit the crime they're accused of, the problem with capital punishment is that once it's inflicted you can't take it back -- can't be corrected.
In a majority of Turkey's female abuse cases, the perpetrators receive mitigations in their sentences due to court's detection of consent granted by the victim, in some cases, wearing a miniskirt or some cleavage got the woman's rapist mitigation in his punishment, while in some cases the consent was attached to her wearing red.
Translations for punishment
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- 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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