penalty
nounHow many syllables in penalty?
There are 3 syllables in the word penalty.How to pronounce penalty:
Definition of penalty:
- penalty (noun):
- the act of punishing.
- a legal punishment for a crime or offence
- the suffering in person, rights, or property that is annexed by law or judicial decision to the commission of a crime or public offense
Synonyms for penalty:
chastisement
compensation
corporal punishment
correction
cruel and unusual punishment
damages
detention
discipline
economic strangulation
fine
forfeit
forfeiture
handicap
imprisonment
medicine
mulct
music
penalisation
penalization
penance
price
punishment
retribution
self-abasement
self-mortification
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Antonyms for penalty:
award
benefit
forgiveness
gain
pardon
praise
reward
sympathy
victory
win
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- pastoral
- pasteurized
- passover
- passengers
- paseo
- partitioned
- particle
- parrilla
- paroxysm
- papable
- pantheon
- pantano
- pantaloons
- pangolin
- paneling
- palpable
- palliate
- palestine
- painkiller
- padlocked
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- packaging
- pabulum
- overtime
- overthink
- oversalt
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- outstretched
- outracing
- outlier
- ottawa
- otoscope
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