What is another word for punishment?
562 synonyms foundPronunciation:
[ pˈʌnɪʃmənt], [ pˈʌnɪʃmənt], [ p_ˈʌ_n_ɪ_ʃ_m_ə_n_t]Table of Contents
Similar words for punishment:- other relevant words (adjective)
- blame; criticism (noun)
- burden (noun)
- condemnation (noun)
- correction (noun)
- demerit (noun)
- deserts (noun)
- discipline (noun)
- doom, fate (noun)
- execution (noun)
- hell (noun)
- just deserts (noun)
- killing (noun)
- lesson (noun)
- mental weight; stress (noun)
- millstone (noun)
- payback for another's action (noun)
- payment, prize (noun)
- penalty (noun)
- penance (noun)
- perdition (noun)
- punishing decree (noun)
- punishment (noun)
- rebuke (noun)
- retaliation (noun)
- retribution (noun)
- revenge (noun)
- reward (noun)
- sentence (noun)
- whipping (noun)
- other relevant words (verb)
- other synonyms
- beating
- fault
- flogging
- lashing
- other relevant words (noun)
Synonyms for Punishment:
adj.
•Other relevant words: (adjective)- fine.
n.
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- exploitative,
- demeaning,
- abusive,
- nurturance,
- conveyor belt,
- light touch,
- brotherly,
- indulgent,
- ingratiating,
- lenient.
- rap.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- premium,
- deduction,
- LUMPS,
- penalty,
- slave labor,
- reparation,
- proof,
- just desserts,
- short shrift,
- forfeiture,
- discount,
- what for,
- torture,
- handicap,
- drawback,
- chastisement,
- hard work,
- castigation,
- purgatory,
- gallows,
- abatement,
- rough treatment,
- discipline.
- 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.
- underworld,
- infernal regions,
- place of torment,
- lower world,
- everlasting fire,
- infernal region,
- loss of the soul.
- confinement,
- price,
- revenge,
- persecution,
- anguish,
- incarceration,
- distress,
- affliction,
- reprisal,
- agony,
- imprisonment,
- crucifixion,
- payment,
- verdict.
- 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.
- counter blow,
- counter-blow,
- re payment,
- re-payments,
- revanches,
- re-dresses,
- counter blows,
- revanche,
- re dresses,
- avengings,
- re payments,
- what fors,
- just dessert,
- re dress,
- avengements,
- re-dress,
- re-payment,
- counter-blows,
- eye for eye.
v.
•Other relevant words: (verb)- cost.
Other synonyms:
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- penance,
- probation,
- leniency,
- comeuppance.
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- sanction,
- threshing,
- deserts,
- conviction.
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- lesson.
- nemesis,
- admonishment,
- weakly,
- correctly,
- banishment,
- repentance,
- oppressiveness,
- penalize,
- quittance,
- excommunication,
- intelligent,
- exactly,
- Punition,
- hanging,
- harshness,
- penalisation,
- beating,
- painfulness,
- ostracism,
- lash,
- condemn,
- catastrophe,
- constitutional,
- drawing and quartering,
- valid,
- decidedly,
- poorly,
- ban,
- reproach,
- castigate,
- healthy,
- chide,
- propriety,
- arms,
- crump,
- justice,
- PROOF READING,
- lashing,
- indictment,
- slightly,
- condemnation,
- sincerely,
- shallowly,
- manhandling,
- lightly,
- dressing down,
- frankly,
- admonition,
- capital punishment,
- hard labor,
- simply,
- exile,
- clearly,
- blight,
- spanking,
- innocently,
- barely,
- profound,
- Paddling,
- Scourging,
- juridical,
- ferule,
- law,
- insignificantly,
- forensic,
- patently,
- accusation,
- thorn,
- chiding,
- calamity,
- chastise,
- sting,
- victimization,
- decision,
- wrath,
- scold,
- retributive justice,
- harm,
- bane,
- pestilence,
- unwisely,
- openly,
- determination,
- desert,
- upbraid,
- foolishly,
- smash,
- onerousness,
- along,
- smite,
- good,
- merely,
- blame,
- punish,
- disaster,
- police,
- penalization,
- affect,
- scolding,
- inflict,
- judicial,
- detention,
- regret,
- just,
- distinctly,
- badly,
- ordeal,
- ill-treatment,
- caning,
- finely,
- obviously,
- prison,
- chastening,
- scorpion,
- heavy,
- recompense,
- self-mortification,
- martyrdom,
- charge,
- utterly,
- amends,
- regularly,
- birch,
- smoothly,
- subjugation,
- silly,
- cancer,
- quid pro quo,
- artlessly,
- satisfaction,
- argumentum baculinum,
- responsibility,
- ulcer,
- damage,
- thrashing,
- apparently,
- bring,
- tragedy,
- unqualifiedly,
- wreak,
- rod,
- afflict,
- switch,
- Birching,
- manifestly,
- purely,
- injury,
- rightful,
- pardon,
- torment,
- solely,
- gas chamber,
- severity,
- trouncing,
- plainly,
- plague,
- punitive measures,
- knock,
- legal,
- barehanded,
- canker,
- Mauling,
- easily,
- HIT,
- grievousness,
- reprimand,
- evil,
- battering,
- visitation,
- thrash,
- scourge,
- thorough,
- penology,
- decree,
- suppression,
- in vain,
- evidently,
- Sentencing,
- Galleys,
- amerce,
- faintly,
- Castigating,
- ruling,
- Avengement,
- punitiveness,
- rather,
- maltreatment,
- happy dispatch,
- firing squad,
- atonement,
- go on foot,
- burdensomeness,
- criticism,
- quietus,
- carking care,
- contrition,
- instrument of punishment,
- cleanly,
- oppression,
- dagger,
- penal servitude,
- abuse,
- compensation,
- emendation,
- model after,
- molestation,
- curse,
- true,
- Cashiering,
- stringency,
- sort out,
- Deathblow,
- outrage,
- requital,
- Smally,
- lowly,
- censure,
- pay,
- delicately,
- cataclysm,
- suffer for,
- penalise,
- uniformly,
- pain,
- penitence,
- cane,
- tyranny,
- corrective action,
- judgement,
- Chastising.
Paraphrases for Punishment:
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Reverse Entailment
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Noun, singular or mass
imprisonment.
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Noun, singular or mass
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Independent
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Noun, singular or mass
torment, punishability, offence, retaliation, oppression.
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Noun, singular or mass
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Other Related
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Proper noun, singular
punish, penalty, Penalties, punishing, Relatives, sentence, sentences, sanction, sanctions, punished, assent, suppression, death, Sentencing.
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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.
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Verb, past tense
penalty.
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Proper noun, singular
Antonyms for Punishment:
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n.
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penalty
encouragement, indulgence, reward, protection, happiness, award, praise.
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Other antonyms:
disregard, forgiveness, exemption, indemnity, overlooking, condonation, exoneration, impunity, reprieve, commutation, parole, release, vindication, remitment, immunity, exculpation.
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penalty