Penal

['piːn(ə)l] or ['pinl]

Definition

(adj.) subject to punishment by law; 'a penal offense' .

(adj.) serving as or designed to impose punishment; 'penal servitude' .

(adj.) of or relating to punishment; 'penal reform'; 'penal code' .

Checker: Wilbur--From WordNet

Definition

(a.) Of or pertaining to punishment, to penalties, or to crimes and offenses; pertaining to criminal jurisprudence

(a.) Enacting or threatening punishment; as, a penal statue; the penal code.

(a.) Incurring punishment; subject to a penalty; as, a penalact of offense.

(a.) Inflicted as punishment; used as a means of punishment; as, a penal colony or settlement.

Typist: Natalie

Synonyms and Synonymous

a. Punitive.

Checker: Mortimer

Synonyms and Antonyms

SYN:Retributive, coercive, visitatorial, castigatory, inflictive, corrective,punitive

ANT:Remunerative, reparatory, decorative, honorary

Checker: Tom

Definition

adj. pertaining to incurring or constituting punishment: used for punishment.—v.t. Pē′nalise to lay under penalty.—adv. Pē′nally.—Penal laws laws prohibiting certain actions under penalties; Penal servitude hard labour in a prison as a punishment for crime—introduced in England in 1853 instead of transportation; Penal statute a statute imposing a penalty or punishment for crime.

Typed by Elbert