Synonyms for punishment
ˈpʌn ɪʃ mənt

Princeton's WordNet(2.17 / 6 votes)Rate these synonyms:

1. punishment, penalty, penalization, penalisation(noun)

   the act of punishing

   Synonyms:
   penalty, penalization, penalisation

Wiktionary(2.75 / 4 votes)Rate these synonyms:

1. punishment(noun)

   Synonyms:
   punition, castigation, beating

   Antonyms:
   reward

2. punishment(noun)

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

   Synonyms:
   beating, castigation, punition

   Antonyms:
   reward

3. punishment(noun)

   A penalty to punish wrongdoing, especially for crime.

   Synonyms:
   castigation, beating, punition

   Antonyms:
   reward

4. punishment(noun)

   A suffering by pain or loss imposed as retribution

   Synonyms:
   castigation, punition, beating

   Antonyms:
   reward

5. punishment(noun)

   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 Antonyms(4.00 / 1 vote)Rate these synonyms:

1. punishment

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

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

Dictionary of English Synonymes(5.00 / 1 vote)Rate these synonyms:

1. punishment(n.)

   Synonyms:
   chastisement, correction, discipline, penalty

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate these synonyms:

1. punishment(n)

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

   Antonyms:
   immunity, impunity, acquittal, exoneration

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

PPDB, the paraphrase database(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate these synonyms:

1. List of paraphrases:

   penalty, chastisement, sentence, sanction, penalties, punish, sentences, suppression, retribution, punishing, assent, sanctions, worth, death, repression, penalization, corporal, punishments, tangible, pity, sentencing, pena, penalisation

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How to use punishment in a sentence?

1. Koon Chow:

   It's quite a bearish global market environment, there are concerns about global growth given the increase in trade tensions ... manifesting in punishment of currencies or countries that are open and do a lot of trade with the U.S. and China.

2. Donald Trump:

   The answer is that there has to be some form of punishment, for the woman.

3. Cate Blanchett:

   The film asks, did the punishment meted out by CBS merit the so-called crime? truth.

4. Blake Griffin:

   It's something I think about every day and wish I could take it back, but now( that it's over) and I have my punishment, I'm looking forward to just moving on and moving past this and getting back on the court with our team mates.

5. John Locke:

   Good and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational creature: these are the spur and reins whereby all mankind are set on work, and guided.

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