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| Main Entry: |
penal
 [peen-l] 
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| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | disciplinary |
| Synonyms: | chastening, corrective, penalizing, punishing, punitive, punitory, reformatory, retributive |
| Notes: | penal means 'relating to punishment' while punitive means 'serving to punish' |
| Main Entry: | punitive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | concerning punishment |
| Synonyms: | castigating, correctional, disciplinary, in reprisal, in retaliation, penal, punishing, punitory, retaliative, retaliatory, revengeful, vindictive |
| Notes: | penal means 'relating to punishment' while punitive means 'serving to punish' |
| Antonyms: | beneficial, rewarding |
| Main Entry: | punitory |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | punishing |
| Synonyms: | castigating, correctional, disciplinary, in reprisal, in retaliation, penal, retaliative, retaliatory, revengeful, vindictive |
Example Sentences
- Productive work is recognized and encouraged as a key element in every rehabilitative penal program.
- Last year the government gave the nod to a workshop that looked into changing the penal code.
- But it is quite something for a department to be accused of having a penal policy that is both too tough and too lenient.
| Main Entry: | reformative |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | corrective |
| Synonyms: | amendatory, antidotal, counteracting, curative, disciplinary, emendatory, palliative, penal, punitive, reformatory, rehabilitative, remedial, restorative, therapeutic |
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