What are the opposite words for reward?
The word "reward" typically connotes positive outcomes, such as prizes, accolades, or money. However, there are several antonyms to the word "reward" that convey negative or undesired consequences. These include terms like punishment, penalty, consequence, retribution, and cost. A punishment refers to a consequence that is meant to discourage certain behaviors, whereas a penalty typically refers to a fee or fine that is imposed for breaking a rule or law. Consequence often refers to the outcome of an action, whether positive or negative. Retribution is typically a synonym for punishment, and cost refers to any negative financial or resource-related outcome. By understanding these concepts, we can better appreciate the meaning and value of rewards as we work towards achieving our goals.
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- penalize
- punish
- castigate
- fine
- mulct
- sentence
- torment
- chasten
- cheat
- damn
- persecute
- reprimand
- criticize severely
- correct, humiliate
- discipline, chastise
- condemn, denounce
- wrong, torment
- penalize for wrongdoing
- pay; give prize
- be or make very upset
- penalty
- authorization
- punishment
- justice
- discipline
- lesson
- castigation
- penance
- sanction
- scourge
- cost for problem
- regimen, training
- something given as sacrifice
- lawfulness, fairness
- reparation for wrong
- blame; criticism
- oral punishment
- payment, prize
- plague, torment
- punishing decree
- Other relevant words
- Other antonyms
-
penalize
- throw the book at,
- impose penalty,
- imposed penalty,
- imposes penalty,
- imposing penalty,
- inflict handicap,
- inflicted handicap,
- inflicting handicap,
- inflicts handicap,
- put at disadvantage,
- put disadvantage,
- puts at disadvantage,
- puts disadvantage,
- putting at disadvantage,
- putting disadvantage,
- threw the book at,
- throwing the book at,
- throws the book at.
-
punish
- attend to,
- defrock,
- penalize,
- defrocked,
- crack down on,
- cracked down on,
- attended to,
- attending to,
- attends to,
- cracking down on,
- cracks down on,
- de bar,
- de barred,
- de barring,
- de bars,
- de frock,
- de frocked,
- de frocking,
- de frocks,
- de-bar,
- de-barred,
- de-barring,
- de-bars,
- de-frock,
- de-frocked,
- de-frocking,
- de-frocks,
- defrocking,
- defrocks,
- dis missed,
- dis missing,
- dis-missed,
- dis-missing,
- gave a going over,
- gave going over,
- gave the works,
- gave works,
- give a going over,
- give going over,
- give the works,
- give works,
- gives a going over,
- gives going over,
- gives the works,
- gives works,
- giving a going over,
- giving going over,
- giving the works,
- giving works,
- mis used,
- mis using,
- mis-used,
- mis-using,
- rap knuckles,
- rapped knuckles,
- rapping knuckles,
- raps knuckles,
- rapt knuckles,
- slap wrist,
- slapped wrist,
- slapping wrist,
- slaps wrist,
- taught a lesson,
- taught lesson,
- teach a lesson,
- teach lesson,
- teaches a lesson,
- teaches lesson,
- teaching a lesson,
- teaching lesson.
-
castigate
- blistered,
- caning,
- disciplined,
- lean on,
- Caned,
- Reamed,
- tongue-lash,
- read the riot act,
- be rate,
- be rated,
- be rates,
- be rating,
- be-rate,
- be-rated,
- be-rates,
- be-rating,
- drag over coals,
- drag over the coals,
- dragged over coals,
- dragged over the coals,
- dragging over coals,
- dragging over the coals,
- drags over coals,
- drags over the coals,
- jump down one throat,
- jump down one's throat,
- jump down throat,
- jumped down one's throat,
- jumped down ones throat,
- jumped down throat,
- jumping down one throat,
- jumping down ones throat,
- jumping down throat,
- jumps down one throat,
- jumps down one's throat,
- jumps down ones throat,
- jumps down throat,
- leaned on,
- leaning on,
- leans on,
- leant on,
- read riot act,
- reading riot act,
- reading the riot act,
- reads riot act,
- tongue lash,
- tongue lashed,
- tongue lashes,
- tongue lashing,
- tongue-lashed,
- tongue-lashes,
- tonguelash,
- tonguelashed,
- tonguelashes,
- tonguelashing,
- up braid,
- up braided,
- up braids,
- up-braid,
- up-braided,
- up-braiding,
- up-braids.
-
fine
- sconce,
- Levied,
- Sconced,
- Sconcing,
- sconces,
- hit with,
- make pay,
- ex act,
- ex acting,
- ex acts,
- ex tort,
- ex torts,
- ex-act,
- ex-acted,
- ex-acting,
- ex-tort,
- ex-torts,
- hits with,
- hitting with,
- made pay,
- makes pay,
- making pay,
- paid through nose,
- paid through the nose,
- pay through nose,
- pay through the nose,
- payed through nose,
- payed through the nose,
- paying through nose,
- paying through the nose,
- pays through nose,
- pays through the nose,
- slap with,
- slapped with,
- slapping with,
- slaps with,
- threw book at,
- throw book at,
- throwing book at,
- throws book at,
- fine.
- mulct
-
sentence
- meted out,
- railroading,
- railroaded,
- pass judgment,
- sent to prison,
- sent up the river,
- send to prison,
- send up the river,
- put on ice,
- de vote,
- de voted,
- de votes,
- de voting,
- de-vote,
- de-voted,
- de-votes,
- de-voting,
- meting out,
- passed judgment,
- passes judgment,
- passing judgment,
- put ice,
- puts ice,
- puts on ice,
- putting ice,
- putting on ice,
- send prison,
- send river,
- send the river,
- send up river,
- sending prison,
- sends prison,
- sends river,
- sends the river,
- sends to prison,
- sends up river,
- sends up the river,
- sent prison,
- sent river,
- sent up river,
- take fall,
- take the fall,
- takes fall,
- takes the fall,
- taking fall,
- taking the fall,
- took fall,
- considered opinion,
- considered opinions,
- de termination,
- de terminations,
- de-termination,
- de-terminations,
- sending river,
- sending the river,
- sending up river,
- sending up the river.
-
torment
- boned,
- Boning,
- Deviled,
- Devilled,
- Deviling,
- Devilling,
- be devil,
- be deviled,
- be deviling,
- be devilled,
- be devilling,
- be devils,
- be-devil,
- be-deviled,
- be-deviling,
- be-devilled,
- be-devilling,
- be-devils,
- drave bananas,
- drive bananas,
- drives bananas,
- driving bananas,
- drove bananas,
- ex cruciate,
- ex-cruciate,
- gave a hard time,
- give hard time,
- gives a hard time,
- gives hard time,
- giving hard time,
- mis treat,
- mis treated,
- mis treating,
- mis treats,
- mis-treat,
- mis-treated,
- mis-treats,
- play cat and mouse,
- play cat mouse,
- played cat and mouse,
- played cat mouse,
- playing cat and mouse,
- playing cat mouse,
- plays cat and mouse,
- plays cat mouse,
- put through wringer,
- rub salt wound,
- rubbed salt in wound,
- rubbed salt wound,
- rubbing salt in wound,
- rubbing salt wound,
- rubs salt in wound,
- rubs salt wound.
-
chasten
- call down,
- take to task,
- have on the carpet,
- called down,
- calls down,
- co wed,
- co wing,
- co-wed,
- co-wing,
- ex probate,
- ex probated,
- ex probates,
- ex probating,
- ex-probate,
- ex-probated,
- ex-probates,
- ex-probating,
- exprobate,
- exprobated,
- exprobates,
- exprobating,
- fulminated against,
- fulminating against,
- had carpet,
- had on carpet,
- had the carpet,
- haddest carpet,
- haddest on carpet,
- haddest on the carpet,
- haddest the carpet,
- hadst carpet,
- hadst on carpet,
- hadst on the carpet,
- hadst the carpet,
- has on carpet,
- has on the carpet,
- has the carpet,
- hast carpet,
- hast on carpet,
- hast on the carpet,
- hast the carpet,
- hath carpet,
- hath on carpet,
- hath on the carpet,
- hath the carpet,
- have on carpet,
- having on carpet,
- having the carpet,
- rake over coals,
- re press,
- re pressed,
- re presses,
- re pressing,
- re prove,
- re proved,
- re proves,
- re strain,
- re strained,
- re straining,
- re strains,
- re-presses,
- re-pressing,
- re-prove,
- re-proved,
- re-proves,
- re-proving,
- re-strain,
- re-strained,
- re-straining,
- re-strains,
- sub due,
- sub dues,
- sub-due,
- sub-dues,
- take task,
- takes task,
- takes to task,
- taking task,
- taking to task,
- took to task.
- cheat
-
damn
- cast out,
- Denunciate,
- Dooming,
- DRAT,
- denunciated,
- denunciates,
- dratted,
- drats,
- dratting,
- object to,
- cry down,
- complain of,
- casting out,
- casts out,
- complained of,
- complaining of,
- complains of,
- cried down,
- cries down,
- crying down,
- denunciating,
- ex communicate,
- ex communicated,
- ex communicates,
- ex communicating,
- ex-communicate,
- ex-communicated,
- ex-communicates,
- ex-communicating,
- inveigle against,
- inveigled against,
- inveigles against,
- inveigling against,
- objected to,
- objecting to,
- objects to,
- pro scribe,
- pro scribed,
- pro scribes,
- pro scribing,
- pro-scribe,
- pro-scribed,
- re vile,
- re-vile,
- thunder against,
- thundered against,
- thundering against,
- thunders against.
-
persecute
- dragoon,
- Dragooned,
- Dragooning,
- Illtreat,
- Martyred,
- Martyring,
- dragoons,
- am case,
- am on case,
- am on one case,
- am on one's case,
- am on ones case,
- am one case,
- am one's case,
- am ones case,
- are case,
- are on case,
- are on one case,
- are on one's case,
- are on ones case,
- are one case,
- are one's case,
- are ones case,
- art case,
- art one's case,
- art ones case,
- be case,
- be on case,
- be on one case,
- be on one's case,
- be on ones case,
- be one case,
- be one's case,
- be ones case,
- being case,
- being on case,
- being on one case,
- being on one's case,
- being on ones case,
- being one case,
- being one's case,
- being ones case,
- dis tress,
- dis tressed,
- dis tresses,
- dis-tress,
- dis-tressed,
- dis-tresses,
- drave the wall,
- drave up the wall,
- drave up wall,
- drave wall,
- drive the wall,
- drive up the wall,
- drive up wall,
- drive wall,
- drives the wall,
- drives up the wall,
- drives up wall,
- drives wall,
- driving the wall,
- driving up the wall,
- driving up wall,
- driving wall,
- drove the wall,
- drove up the wall,
- drove up wall,
- drove wall,
- is case,
- is on case,
- is on one case,
- is on one's case,
- is on ones case,
- is one case,
- is one's case,
- is ones case,
- out raged,
- out rages,
- out-rage,
- out-raged,
- out-rages,
- out-raging,
- was case,
- was on case,
- was on one case,
- was on one's case,
- was on ones case,
- was one case,
- was one's case,
- was ones case,
- wast case,
- wast on case,
- wast on one case,
- wast on one's case,
- wast on ones case,
- wast one case,
- wast one's case,
- wast ones case,
- were case,
- were on case,
- were on one case,
- were on one's case,
- were on ones case,
- were one case,
- were one's case,
- were ones case,
- wert case,
- wert on case,
- wert on one case,
- wert on one's case,
- wert on ones case,
- wert one case,
- wert one's case,
- wert ones case.
-
reprimand
- monish,
- tick off,
- Lessoned,
- Lessoning,
- call on the carpet,
- ticked off,
- ticking off,
- lower the boom,
- call carpet,
- call on carpet,
- call the carpet,
- called carpet,
- called on carpet,
- called on the carpet,
- called the carpet,
- calling carpet,
- calling on carpet,
- calling on the carpet,
- calling the carpet,
- calls carpet,
- calls on carpet,
- calls on the carpet,
- calls the carpet,
- gave dickens,
- gave piece mind,
- gave piece of mind,
- gave piece of one mind,
- gave piece of one's mind,
- gave piece of ones mind,
- gave piece one mind,
- gave piece one's mind,
- gave piece ones mind,
- gave the dickens,
- give dickens,
- give piece mind,
- give piece of mind,
- give piece of one mind,
- give piece of one's mind,
- give piece of ones mind,
- give piece one mind,
- give piece one's mind,
- give piece ones mind,
- give the dickens,
- gives dickens,
- gives piece mind,
- gives piece of mind,
- gives piece of one mind,
- gives piece of one's mind,
- gives piece of ones mind,
- gives piece one mind,
- gives piece one's mind,
- gives piece ones mind,
- gives the dickens,
- giving dickens,
- giving piece mind,
- giving piece of mind,
- giving piece of one mind,
- giving piece of one's mind,
- giving piece of ones mind,
- giving piece one mind,
- giving piece one's mind,
- giving piece ones mind,
- giving the dickens,
- light in to,
- lighted in to,
- lighted into,
- lighting in to,
- lighting into,
- lights in to,
- lights into,
- lit in to,
- lit into,
- lower boom,
- lowered boom,
- lowered the boom,
- lowering boom,
- lowering the boom,
- lowers boom,
- lowers the boom,
- monished,
- monishes,
- monishing,
- ticks off,
- took task,
- hard time,
- hard times,
- talking to,
- Ragging,
- telling-off,
- bawling outs,
- calling down,
- calling downs,
- dressingdown,
- going overs,
- groomings,
- piece mind,
- piece of one mind,
- piece of one's mind,
- piece of ones mind,
- piece one mind,
- piece one's mind,
- piece ones mind,
- raggings,
- re prehensions,
- re-prehension,
- slap on wrist,
- talking tos,
- talking-to,
- talkingto,
- talkingtos,
- telling offs,
- telling-offs,
- tellingoff,
- tellingoffs.
- criticize severely
- correct, humiliate
- discipline, chastise
-
condemn, denounce
- damn.
- wrong, torment
- penalize for wrongdoing
- pay; give prize
- be or make very upset
- penalty
- authorization
- punishment
-
justice
- due process,
- judicatory,
- judicature,
- legalization,
- reasonableness,
- square deal,
- Constitutionality,
- judicatures,
- fair play,
- fair treatment,
- constitutionalities,
- de cree,
- de crees,
- de-cree,
- de-crees,
- due processes,
- fair plays,
- fair treatments,
- judicatories,
- legal processes,
- legalizations,
- re dress,
- re dresses,
- re view,
- re views,
- re-dress,
- re-dresses,
- re-view,
- re-views,
- reasonablenesses,
- square deals.
-
discipline
- branch of knowledge,
- domestication,
- hell to pay,
- inculcation,
- self-command,
- Punition,
- punitions,
- drillings,
- self-mastery,
- branch knowledge,
- domestications,
- getting your,
- getting yours,
- hell pay,
- self command,
- self control,
- self government,
- self masteries,
- self mastery,
- self restraint,
- self-commands,
- self-masteries,
- selfcommand,
- selfcommands,
- selfcontrol,
- selfgovernment,
- selfmasteries,
- selfmastery,
- sub ordination,
- sub ordinations,
- sub-ordinations.
- lesson
- castigation
- penance
- sanction
- scourge
- cost for problem
- regimen, training
- something given as sacrifice
- lawfulness, fairness
- reparation for wrong
-
blame; criticism
- rap.
- oral punishment
-
payment, prize
- bottom,
- loss,
- penalty,
- punishment.
- plague, torment
- punishing decree
- Other relevant words
- Other antonyms
Antonym of the day
split down the middle
- Antonyms:
- combine, join.
