Thesaurus:penal
English
Adjective
Sense: of or relating to punishment
Synonyms
- penal
- penary (obsolete)
- penitentiary
- punishmental (rare)
Antonyms
Hyponyms
- correctional (chiefly US & Canada)
- penocorrectional
Coordinate terms
- carceral (formal, literary)
- penitential
Further reading
- “972. punishment” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “penal” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.