Definition for Imprisonment:

• The act of imprisoning or state of being imprisoned: confinement or restraint.

Synonyms for Imprisonment:

• n.

  •
  • arrest,
  • correctional,
  • freedom,
  • isolation,
  • liberty,
  • life,
  • limbo,
  • quarantine,
  • restraint,
  • thralldom,
  • hard labor.
  •
  • confining,
  • discharge,
  • enthralling,
  • release.
  •forcible detention (noun)
  • bondage,
  • captivity,
  • confinement,
  • custody,
  • durance,
  • duress,
  • incarceration,
  • isolation,
  • quarantine,
  • remand,
  • restraint,
  • thralldom,
  • immuration.
  •imprisonment (noun)
  • captivity,
  • immurement,
  • incarceration,
  • internment.
  •placing in forcible detention (noun)
  • confining,
  • jailing,
  • locking up.
  •punishment (noun)
  • affliction,
  • agony,
  • anguish,
  • burden,
  • castigation,
  • chastisement,
  • confinement,
  • correction,
  • crucifixion,
  • discipline,
  • distress,
  • execution,
  • fine,
  • forfeiture,
  • incarceration,
  • judgment,
  • payment,
  • penalty,
  • persecution,
  • price,
  • punishment,
  • reprisal,
  • retribution,
  • revenge,
  • sentence,
  • torture,
  • verdict.
  •restraint (noun)
  • restraint.
  •taking into custody (noun)
  • arrest.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • arrest,
  • correctional,
  • escape,
  • hard labor.
  •
  • rendition,
  • transportation.
  •
  • solitary.
  •
  • life.
  •confinement
  • limbo.
  •Other relevant words:
  • amercement,
  • apply,
  • apprehension,
  • arrest,
  • assign,
  • attach,
  • band,
  • banishment,
  • bastinado,
  • beating,
  • bind,
  • blockade,
  • blockading,
  • blow,
  • bond,
  • bondage,
  • bound,
  • buffet,
  • caning,
  • captivity,
  • capture,
  • chains,
  • charge,
  • childbirth,
  • circumscribe,
  • circumscription,
  • coarctation,
  • commend,
  • commit,
  • committal,
  • confine,
  • confining,
  • constrain,
  • constraint,
  • contain,
  • continuance,
  • correctional,
  • cuff,
  • curb,
  • custody,
  • delay,
  • detention,
  • dismemberment,
  • douse,
  • durance,
  • duress,
  • electrocution,
  • enclose,
  • enclosure,
  • enslavement,
  • enter,
  • enthralling,
  • entombment,
  • envelopment,
  • escape,
  • excommunication,
  • exile,
  • expulsion,
  • fasten,
  • fetter,
  • flagellation,
  • flogging,
  • forfeit,
  • freedom,
  • gantlet,
  • gauntlet,
  • govern,
  • halt,
  • handcuffs,
  • handicap,
  • hanging,
  • hardship,
  • hold,
  • house arrest,
  • immure,
  • immurement,
  • impalement,
  • impounding,
  • impoundment,
  • imprison,
  • impulse,
  • incarcerate,
  • inclose,
  • inclusion,
  • inhibit,
  • instrument of punishment,
  • internment,
  • involve,
  • irons,
  • isolation,
  • jail,
  • just deserts,
  • justice,
  • kick,
  • lash,
  • lashing,
  • law,
  • liberty,
  • life,
  • ligament,
  • limbo,
  • lock up,
  • lockup,
  • martyrdom,
  • mulct,
  • ostracism,
  • penalization,
  • penance,
  • picket,
  • police,
  • poundage,
  • prevent,
  • prison,
  • pummel,
  • put away,
  • quarantine,
  • rack,
  • release,
  • remand,
  • rendition,
  • repress,
  • restrain,
  • restraint,
  • restrict,
  • scaffold,
  • serfdom,
  • servitude,
  • set up,
  • siege,
  • slap,
  • slavery,
  • solitary,
  • spanking,
  • strappado,
  • stripe,
  • thralldom,
  • torment,
  • transportation,
  • whipping,
  • wipe,
  • Besetment,
  • Birching,
  • Bond service,
  • Cashiering,
  • Detainer,
  • Detainment,
  • Dragonnade,
  • Estrapade,
  • fetters,
  • Fustigation,
  • Galleys,
  • Keelhauling,
  • Mancipation,
  • Paddling,
  • Picketing,
  • Scourging,
  • Sentencing,
  • false imprisonment,
  • bonds,
  • cordoning,
  • shackles,
  • manacles,
  • jailing,
  • locking up,
  • gyves,
  • beleaguerment,
  • hard labor,
  • durance vile,
  • immuration,
  • rock pile,
  • close arrest,
  • penal servitude,
  • imprisonments,
  • prison sentence,
  • jail sentence,
  • drawing and quartering.

Antonyms for Imprisonment:

• n.

  • forcible detention
    discharge, freedom, liberating, liberation, liberty, release.
  • Other antonyms:
    discharge, emancipation, freedom, independence, liberation, liberty, manumission, redemption, release.

• Other antonyms:

  • n. t.
    freedom.