Antonyms for punishment
ˈpʌn ɪʃ məntpun·ish·ment

WiktionaryRate these synonyms:3.4 / 7 votes

1. punishmentnoun

   Antonyms:
   reward

   Synonyms:
   punition, castigation, beating

2. punishmentnoun

   The act or process of punishing, imposing and/or applying a sanction.

   Antonyms:
   reward

   Synonyms:
   beating, castigation, punition

3. punishmentnoun

   A penalty to punish wrongdoing, especially for crime.

   Antonyms:
   reward

   Synonyms:
   beating, punition, castigation

4. punishmentnoun

   A suffering by pain or loss imposed as retribution

   Antonyms:
   reward

   Synonyms:
   castigation, punition, beating

5. punishmentnoun

   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, castigation

   Antonyms:
   reward

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:4.0 / 1 vote

1. punishment

   Antonyms:
   benevolence, benignity, blessing, clemency, compassion, favor, forbearance, forgiveness, gentleness, grace, kindness, lenience, leniency, lenity, mercy, mildness, pardon, pardon, pity, tenderness

   Synonyms:
   cruelty, hardness, harshness, implacability, justice, penalty, revenge, rigor, severity, sternness, vengeance

Matched Categories

1. • Social Control

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:1.9 / 8 votes

1. punishment, penalty, penalization, penalisationnoun

   the act of punishing

   Synonyms:
   penalty, penalization, penalisation

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1. punishmentnoun

   Antonyms:
   immunity, impunity, acquittal, exoneration

   Synonyms:
   chastisement, castigation, scourging, discipline, penalty, visitation, retaliation, retribution, infliction

   Associated words:
   penal, penology, punitive, penologist, penological, reprieve, commute, commutation, nemesis, connivance

How to use punishment in a sentence?

1. Nour Odeh:

   They can tell this government that this modus operandi doesn’t work. You can’t keep pushing Palestinians like that. You can’t have more than 30 Palestinians killed in less than a month [as has happened in January]. You can’t demolish homes – that will expel families – and [impose] collective punishment measures, it won’t be long before Palestinians say, ‘You know what, we have to also organize and defend ourselves … nobody’s there to help us. So we’re going to do it ourselves.’ When you get there, nobody can put a lid on that.

2. Martha Miele Matthew:

   The punishment is so severe in this it’s hard as a parent to try to make this a teachable moment for our kid so we can move forward in a healthy manner.

3. Youk Chhang:

   No form of punishment on earth would be fair for what they did to the four foreigners and millions of Cambodians and their family members.

4. Andy Murray:

   It's not up to me to decide the punishment, but if you're taking performance enhancing drugs and you fail a drugs test, you have to get suspended, if you're taking a prescription drug and you're not using it for what that drug was meant for, then you don't need it, so you're just using it for the performance enhancing benefits that drug is giving you. And I don't think that that's right.

5. Josh Shapiro:

   That is the end of capital punishment in this state. When you execute an innocent man, knowingly execute an innocent man, you know there will be no more capital punishment in this state and possibly anywhere else in this country.

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