Synonyms for punishment
ˈpʌn ɪʃ mənt

Princeton's WordNet(2.00 / 7 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

How to pronounce punishment?

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US English

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British

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Australian

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Indian

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How to use punishment in a sentence?

1. Jessie Rossman:

   Today's landmark ruling affirmed that our law does not permit the punishment of the homeless for simply being homeless.

2. Smithsonian Channel:

   Koresh and I were at odds, so he was going to head to Texas. He ordered me to come to Texas to receive my punishment because I was opposing him. So I packed my bags and everybody assumed I was going to Texas to do what Koresh had ordered me to do, but I never showed up. Eventually, I went to Australia. So in the end, Elizabeth being in Australia worked out because I had a place to go.

3. Dale Bumpers:

   There's a total lack of proportionality, a total lack of balance in this thing. The charge and the punishment are totally out of sync.

4. Cate Blanchett:

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

5. Jerry Garry:

   From an environmental point of view, obviously the slurry discharge... has already caused damage to the ocean and the livelihood of the people because they will not be swimming and they will not be fishing in the area any more, there will be summons to pay compensation. There will be other punishment imposed by CEPA. I'm really not too sure as to what the nature of the penalties may be.

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