PENAL Synonyms

• concerned with or providing correction

• a device for treating injury or disease

• designed to promote discipline

• tending or intended to correct or counteract or restore to a normal condition

• relating to discipline in behavior

• relating to a specific field of academic study

• designed to promote discipline

• belonging or appropriate to the office of a judge

• relating to the administration of justice or the function of a judge

• decreed by or proceeding from a court of justice

• expressing careful judgment

• established by or founded upon law or official or accepted rules

• of or relating to jurisprudence

• relating to or characteristic of the profession of law

• having legal efficacy or force

• allowed by official rules

• resulting in punishment

• characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort

• inflicting punishment

• of or relating to or having the nature of retribution

• of or relating to or having the nature of retribution

• given or inflicted in requital according to merits or deserts

• implying sanction or serving to sanction

• disposed to seek revenge or intended for revenge

• showing malicious ill will and a desire to hurt; motivated by spite

• censure severely

• inflict severe punishment on

• censure severely

• lock up or confine, in or as in a jail

• confine as if in a prison

• impose a penalty on; inflict punishment on

• liable to or deserving punishment

• (of an act or offense) subject to punishment by law