Dictionary Entry
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
- 1adjective
Of or pertaining to punishment, to penalties, or to crimes and offenses; pertaining to criminal jurisprudence
- 2adjective
Enacting or threatening punishment; as, a penal statue; the penal code.
- 3adjective
Incurring punishment; subject to a penalty; as, a penalact of offense.
- 4adjective
Inflicted as punishment; used as a means of punishment; as, a penal colony or settlement.
- 5adjective
subject to punishment by law
"a penal offense"
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- 6adjective
serving as or designed to impose punishment
"penal servitude"
- 7adjective
of or relating to punishment
"penal reform"
"penal code"
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