562 synonyms found

Pronunciation:

[ pˈʌnɪʃmənt], [ pˈʌnɪʃmənt], [ p_ˈʌ_n_ɪ_ʃ_m_ə_n_t]

Related words: is punishment necessary, punishment for kids, should punishment be allowed in schools, punishments for kids, what is the purpose of punishment, is punishment a deterrent, what are the possible punishments for a crime, punishments and rewards

What are punishments for children

What are the punishments for a crime

Is punishment necessary in schools

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)

How to use "punishment" in context?

Paraphrases for punishment

Synonyms for Punishment:

• adj.

  • Other relevant words: (adjective)
  • fine.

• 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.
  • just deserts (noun)
  • Dueness,
  • what's coming to one,
  • what is merited,
  • dose of one's own medicine,
  • what is due.
  • killing (noun)
  • execution.
  • lesson (noun)
  • noble action,
  • helpful word,
  • chidings,
  • lessons.
  • mental weight; stress (noun)
  • burden.
  • millstone (noun)
  • mental weight,
  • millstone.
  • payback for another's action (noun)
  • retribution.
  • payment, prize (noun)
  • reward.
  • penalty (noun)
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • punishing decree (noun)
  • sentence.
  • punishment (noun)
  • confinement,
  • price,
  • revenge,
  • persecution,
  • anguish,
  • incarceration,
  • distress,
  • affliction,
  • reprisal,
  • agony,
  • imprisonment,
  • crucifixion,
  • payment,
  • verdict.
  • 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)
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • whipping (noun)
  • poundings,
  • trouncings,
  • spankings,
  • pastings,
  • pummelings,
  • wallopings,
  • licking,
  • Tannings,
  • canings.

• v.

  • Other relevant words: (verb)
  • cost.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • penance,
  • probation,
  • leniency,
  • comeuppance.
  •
  • sanction,
  • threshing,
  • deserts,
  • conviction.
  •
  • lesson.
  • beating
  • whipping.
  • fault
  • demerit.
  • flogging
  • corporal punishment.
  • lashing
  • flogging.
  • Other relevant words (noun):
  • 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.

How to use "Punishment" in context?

Paraphrases for Punishment:

• Reverse Entailment

  • Noun, singular or mass
    imprisonment.

• Independent

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

• Other Related

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