Definition for Chastening:

• a rebuke for making a mistake

Synonyms for Chastening:

• adj.

  •punishing (adjective)
  • tortuous,
  • burdensome.

• n.

  •chastening (noun)
  • correction,
  • chastisement.

• v.

  •disapproving (verb)
  • Castigating,
  • Defaming,
  • disparaging,
  • scorning,
  • criticizing,
  • chiding,
  • disapproving,
  • deprecating,
  • Discrediting,
  • Reproaching,
  • Renouncing,
  • upbraiding,
  • denigrating,
  • admonishing,
  • Defiling,
  • condemning,
  • Censuring,
  • Denouncing,
  • Blaming,
  • Deriding,
  • Vilifying,
  • Chastising.
  •punishing (verb)
  • penalizing,
  • judging,
  • executing,
  • Correcting,
  • Crucifying,
  • Incarcerating,
  • Imprisoning,
  • Sentencing,
  • avenging,
  • confining,
  • Afflicting,
  • anguishing,
  • agonizing,
  • reprising,
  • punishing,
  • trying,
  • lambasting,
  • Burdening,
  • Persecuting,
  • distressing,
  • Pillorying,
  • Fining,
  • Keelhauling.

• Other synonyms:

  •Other relevant words:
  • lessening,
  • dressing down,
  • ruin,
  • rebuke,
  • modification,
  • infliction,
  • cushioning,
  • moderating,
  • blow,
  • repressing,
  • stroke,
  • punitory,
  • reproof,
  • dishonourable,
  • pain,
  • softening,
  • humbling,
  • reprimand,
  • corrupt,
  • crushing,
  • disciplinary,
  • infamous,
  • excoriating,
  • bereavement,
  • mortifying,
  • Compensating,
  • desert,
  • earful,
  • scourge,
  • Surmounting,
  • relaxing,
  • emendation,
  • improvement,
  • adjustment,
  • admonition,
  • mean,
  • misfortune,
  • visitation,
  • polished,
  • study,
  • controlling,
  • Decrying,
  • corrective,
  • annealing,
  • low,
  • lash,
  • indecent,
  • disaster,
  • nemesis,
  • retaliatory,
  • alteration,
  • fudge factor,
  • Mitigating,
  • retribution,
  • rod,
  • seasoning,
  • Blunting,
  • harm,
  • birch,
  • admonishment,
  • domesticating,
  • bailiwick,
  • discreditable,
  • mishap,
  • purifying,
  • mincing,
  • judgment,
  • reproving,
  • Dulling,
  • hardship,
  • punishment,
  • rectification,
  • vile,
  • reducing,
  • misadventure,
  • hardening,
  • redress,
  • lesson,
  • discipline,
  • inglorious,
  • penology,
  • conquering,
  • Amercing,
  • Punition,
  • Subjugating,
  • amendment,
  • ferule,
  • improving,
  • outrageous,
  • naturalising,
  • Remonstrating,
  • blameworthy,
  • distress,
  • scandalous,
  • tribulation,
  • affliction,
  • failure,
  • ill,
  • penal,
  • castigation,
  • deadening,
  • cleansing,
  • disgraceful,
  • Castigatory,
  • ignominious,
  • Righting,
  • tempering,
  • Amending,
  • reprehension,
  • mischance,
  • Shaming,
  • Quashing,
  • Taming,
  • Mollifying,
  • Discomfiting,
  • adversity,
  • revision,
  • Chairing,
  • scolding,
  • misery,
  • Naturalizing,
  • embarrassing,
  • trial,
  • gruelling,
  • switch,
  • humiliating,
  • reforming,
  • diminishing,
  • sorrow,
  • easing,
  • trouble,
  • reclamation,
  • punitive,
  • disappointment,
  • degrading,
  • shameful,
  • unprincipled,
  • setting right,
  • cane,
  • reverse,
  • correctional,
  • disreputable,
  • base,
  • deplorable,
  • Chastener,
  • refining,
  • punitive measures,
  • retributive,
  • Cultivating,
  • pay,
  • Subduing,
  • calamity,
  • Rebuking.

Antonyms for Chastening:

• adj.

  • Other antonyms:
    good fortune, triumph, exculpatory, pleasure, consolation, success, blessing, joy, commuting, gratification, happiness, relief, prosperity, comfort, compensatory, boon, good luck.

Hyponym for Chastening:

• n.

  • communication
    reprimand, rebuke, reproof, reproval, reprehension.