What does punishable mean?

punishable means "liable to or deserving punishment". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in punishable?

punishable has 4 syllables: pun-i-sha-ble. The stress falls on "pun". In IPA it is /ˈpʌnɪʃəbəl/.

What is another word for punishable?

Close synonyms include penal. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is punishable a common word?

punishable is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

punishable — meaning, pronunciation and 2 definitions

adjective

2 sensesA word that describes or qualifies a noun.

1.
liable to or deserving punishment
“punishable offenses”
Similarguilty
2.
(of an act or offense) subject to punishment by law
“a penal offense”
Synonymspenal
Similarillegal

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What does punishable mean?: punishable means "liable to or deserving punishment". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

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