penal

penal is a 5-letter English word with 7 senses as adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Of or pertaining to punishment, to penalties, or to crimes and offenses; pertaining to criminal jurisprudence. Face value is 7 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

5 letters · Scrabble 7 · Words With Friends 10 · 7 senses

Definitions

1. adjective. Of or pertaining to punishment, to penalties, or to crimes and offenses; pertaining to criminal jurisprudence
2. adjective. Enacting or threatening punishment; as, a penal statue; the penal code.
3. adjective. Incurring punishment; subject to a penalty; as, a penalact of offense.
4. adjective. Inflicted as punishment; used as a means of punishment; as, a penal colony or settlement.
5. adjective. subject to punishment by law

   "a penal offense"

   Synonyms: punishable

6. adjective. serving as or designed to impose punishment

   "penal servitude"

7. adjective. of or relating to punishment

   "penal reform"

   "penal code"

Synonyms

punishable

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in penal:

alpen, nepal, panel, plane, plena

Common word forms

penally, penalise, penality, penalize

Words from these letters

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