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?
We are greatly concerned by reports that human rights activist Raif Badawi will start facing the inhumane punishment of a 1,000 lashes, in addition to serving a 10-year sentence in prison for exercising his rights to freedom of expression and religion, the United States government calls on Saudi authorities to cancel this brutal punishment and to review Badawi’s case and sentence.
Capital punishment: Capital punishment has no role in a perfect world. But since the world we live in is far from perfect I say reserve it only for the offenders who justly deserve it. We as humanity need to strive for and accomplish a just and peaceful world so that way we can abolish capital punishment altogether.
There was probably a little bit of self-punishment to it.
Happiness is not a reward - it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - it is a result.
We have been repeating the cycle of inspection-rectification-punishment ... It's time to solve the problem for good.
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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