Definition for Punishment:

• A penalty inflicted by a court of justice on a convicted offender as a just retribution, and incidentally for the purposes of reformation and prevention.

Synonyms for Punishment:

• n.

  •
  • exploitative,
  • demeaning,
  • abusive,
  • nurturance,
  • conveyor belt,
  • light touch,
  • brotherly,
  • indulgent,
  • ingratiating,
  • lenient.
  •blame; criticism (noun)
  • rap.
  •burden (noun)
  • thorn one's side,
  • mis-fortunes,
  • deadweights,
  • thorn ones side,
  • excess baggages,
  • thorn in ones side,
  • mis fortune,
  • thorn in one side,
  • deadweight,
  • weary loads,
  • thorn one side,
  • encumbrance,
  • thorn in side,
  • ball chain,
  • herculean tasks,
  • excess baggage,
  • thorn side,
  • mis fortunes,
  • weary load,
  • thorn in one's side.
  •condemnation (noun)
  • rebuke.
  •correction (noun)
  • dose of strap oil,
  • suffering,
  • disciplinary action,
  • infliction,
  • confiscation,
  • sequestration,
  • carrot-and-stick treatment,
  • forfeit,
  • rap on the knuckles,
  • mulct,
  • trial,
  • mortification,
  • amercement,
  • unhappiness,
  • deprivation,
  • just deserts,
  • reproof.
  •demerit (noun)
  • loss of points,
  • mark against one,
  • loss of credit,
  • bad mark.
  •deserts (noun)
  • Re-turn,
  • re venge,
  • get her,
  • deservings,
  • re-turns,
  • meeds,
  • what is coming one,
  • what is coming to one,
  • re turns,
  • get hers,
  • de-servings,
  • re-venge,
  • re turn,
  • Disciplining,
  • de-serving,
  • de sert,
  • talions,
  • get hi,
  • disciplinings,
  • what one is asking for,
  • de servings,
  • what is asking for,
  • de-sert,
  • chastenings,
  • de serving,
  • what is asking fors,
  • get his,
  • re-venges,
  • re venges,
  • Talion,
  • what one is asking fors.
  •discipline (noun)
  • correction.
  •doom, fate (noun)
  • judgment.
  •execution (noun)
  • de-capitations,
  • lethal injection,
  • impalements,
  • impalement,
  • rub outs,
  • hangings,
  • necktie parties,
  • guillotinings,
  • strangulations,
  • be-headings,
  • lethal injections,
  • de-capitation,
  • be-heading,
  • electrocutions,
  • beheadings,
  • de capitation,
  • contract killings,
  • be headings,
  • necktie party,
  • contract killing,
  • de capitations,
  • gassing,
  • be heading,
  • stranglings,
  • electrocution,
  • rub out,
  • strangulation,
  • decapitation,
  • decapitations,
  • gassings.
  •hell (noun)
  • perdition.
  •payback for another's action (noun)
  • retribution.
  •payment, prize (noun)
  • reward.
  •penalisation (noun)
  • penalisation.
  •penalization (noun)
  • penalization.
  •penalty (noun)
  • short shrift,
  • deduction,
  • LUMPS,
  • drawback,
  • discount,
  • gallows,
  • purgatory,
  • slave labor,
  • victimization,
  • proof,
  • abatement,
  • chastening,
  • reparation,
  • hard work,
  • penalty,
  • torture,
  • maltreatment,
  • rough treatment,
  • punitive measures,
  • abuse,
  • chastisement,
  • just desserts,
  • premium,
  • pain,
  • handicap,
  • burden,
  • castigation,
  • beating,
  • ostracism,
  • forfeiture,
  • rod,
  • discipline,
  • what for.
  •penance (noun)
  • selfflagellations,
  • sackcloth ash,
  • selfflagellation,
  • expiations,
  • self-flagellation,
  • sackcloth and ash,
  • self flagellations,
  • shrifts,
  • self-flagellations,
  • re-morse,
  • sackcloth ashes,
  • re morses,
  • sackcloth and ashes,
  • self flagellation,
  • shrift,
  • re morse,
  • re-morses.
  •perdition (noun)
  • underworld,
  • infernal regions,
  • place of torment,
  • lower world,
  • everlasting fire,
  • infernal region,
  • loss of the soul.
  •plague, torment (noun)
  • scourge.
  •punishing decree (noun)
  • sentence.
  •punishment (noun)
  • crucifixion,
  • affliction,
  • confinement,
  • payment,
  • reprisal,
  • revenge,
  • verdict,
  • distress,
  • persecution,
  • price,
  • agony,
  • imprisonment,
  • incarceration,
  • execution,
  • anguish.
  •rebuke (noun)
  • objurgations,
  • be-rating,
  • kick the teeth,
  • kick in teeth,
  • bawlingouts,
  • dis approvals,
  • up braidings,
  • ex postulation,
  • telling-offs,
  • re-buffs,
  • earfuls,
  • hard times,
  • objurgation,
  • be ratings,
  • tellingoff,
  • upbraidings,
  • kick in the teeth,
  • slap in face,
  • chewingouts,
  • slap in the face,
  • talking tos,
  • chewing-out,
  • chewing-outs,
  • talking-to,
  • re monstrance,
  • putdown,
  • talkingto,
  • up-braiding,
  • re-monstrances,
  • talking to,
  • goingover,
  • ex postulations,
  • slap the face,
  • tongue lashing,
  • talking-tos,
  • bawling-out,
  • dis-approval,
  • up-braidings,
  • re buffs,
  • reprovals,
  • bawling-outs,
  • bawling outs,
  • kick teeth,
  • chewingout,
  • ex-postulations,
  • reproval,
  • re-monstrance,
  • re pulses,
  • chewing outs,
  • re-pulses,
  • dis-approvals,
  • tonguelashing,
  • ex-postulation,
  • re prehension,
  • refusal,
  • telling offs,
  • tellingoffs,
  • re buff,
  • up braiding,
  • bawlingout,
  • talkingtos,
  • earful,
  • dressingdown,
  • re-prehension,
  • dis approval,
  • be rating,
  • be-ratings,
  • telling-off,
  • re monstrances,
  • re-prehensions,
  • beratings,
  • slap face,
  • re prehensions,
  • hard time.
  •retaliation (noun)
  • retaliation.
  •retribution (noun)
  • re-payment,
  • re dress,
  • counter blows,
  • re-payments,
  • counter-blow,
  • re payments,
  • eye for eye,
  • re dresses,
  • avengements,
  • what fors,
  • re-dresses,
  • Avengement,
  • re-dress,
  • counter blow,
  • counter-blows,
  • avengings,
  • revanche,
  • just dessert,
  • revanches,
  • re payment.
  •revenge (noun)
  • restitution,
  • vengeance,
  • redress,
  • counteraction.
  •reward (noun)
  • carrot,
  • feather in cap,
  • Sweeteners,
  • sweetener,
  • Carrots.
  •sentence (noun)
  • considered opinion,
  • considered opinions,
  • de termination,
  • sending up river,
  • de-terminations,
  • sending the river,
  • de terminations,
  • sending river,
  • de-termination,
  • sending up the river,
  • sentences.
  •visitation (noun)
  • visitation.
  •whipping (noun)
  • flogging,
  • licking,
  • Tannings,
  • spankings,
  • canings,
  • pummelings,
  • poundings,
  • pastings,
  • trouncings,
  • wallopings,
  • caning.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • penance,
  • probation,
  • leniency,
  • comeuppance.
  •
  • sanction,
  • threshing,
  • deserts,
  • conviction.
  •
  • lesson.
  •beating
  • whipping.
  •fault
  • demerit.
  •flogging
  • corporal punishment.
  •thrashing
  • lashing.

Paraphrases for Punishment:

• Reverse Entailment

  • Noun, singular or mass
    imprisonment.

• Independent

  • Proper noun, singular
    Crimes, goods.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    torment, punishability, offence, retaliation, oppression.

• Other Related

  • Proper noun, singular
    punish, penalty, Penalties, punishing, Relatives, sentence, sentences, sanction, sanctions, punished, assent, suppression, death, Sentencing.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    retribution, penalty, punishing, impunity, condemnation, sentence, discipline, imposition, penalisation, conviction, penalizing, term, pity, shame, sanction, fine, penalising, pain, penance, punished, confinement, assent, sorrow, suppression, death, Sentencing.
  • Verb, past tense
    penalty.

Antonyms for Punishment:

• n.

  • penalty
    encouragement, indulgence, reward, protection, happiness, award, praise.
  • Other antonyms:
    disregard, forgiveness, exemption, indemnity, overlooking, condonation, exoneration, impunity, reprieve, commutation, parole, release, vindication, remitment, immunity, exculpation.

Punishment Sentence Examples:

• " We will let you go," they replied, " but you know that if you don't come you will not escape our punishment."

• I suppose we'd better just go straight back and hand ourselves over for punishment.