That crime is punishable by death.
Source: tatoeba (44419)
Punishable
//ˈpʌnɪʃəbəl//
Synonyms for "punishable" (48 found)
Ranked by relevance and common usage.
Closest matches (10)
Strong matches (14)
Related words (24)
Related word relations
OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.
More specific
9 entriesRelated terms
2 entriesderived
7 entriesderived from
1 entriesrelated to
2 entriessimilar
4 entriesTranslations
28 translations across 23 languages.
Bulgarian
1 entries- наказуем adj (appropriate for punishment)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 可罰的 /可罚的 adj (appropriate for punishment)
- 該罰的 /该罚的 adj (appropriate for punishment)
Czech
1 entries- trestný adj (appropriate for punishment)
Danish
1 entries- strafbar adj (appropriate for punishment)
Dutch
1 entries- strafbaar adj (appropriate for punishment)
Esperanto
1 entries- puninda adj (appropriate for punishment)
Finnish
1 entries- rangaistava adj (appropriate for punishment)
French
2 entries- passible adj (appropriate for punishment)
- punissable adj (appropriate for punishment)
Galician
2 entries- punible adj (appropriate for punishment)
- puníbel adj (appropriate for punishment)
German
1 entries- strafbar adj (appropriate for punishment)
Hungarian
1 entries- büntethető adj (appropriate for punishment)
Italian
1 entries- punibile adj (appropriate for punishment)
Japanese
1 entries- 罰するべき adj (appropriate for punishment)
Latin
1 entries- castīgābilis adj (appropriate for punishment)
Luxembourgish
1 entries- strofbar adj (appropriate for punishment)
Macedonian
1 entries- казнив adj (appropriate for punishment)
Norman
1 entries- peunnissabl'ye adj (appropriate for punishment)
Polish
1 entries- karalny adj (appropriate for punishment)
Portuguese
2 entries- passível adj (appropriate for punishment)
- punível adj (appropriate for punishment)
Romanian
2 entries- pedepsibil adj (appropriate for punishment)
- penalizabil adj (appropriate for punishment)
Russian
1 entries- наказу́емый adj (appropriate for punishment)
Spanish
1 entries- punible adj (appropriate for punishment)
Swedish
1 entries- straffbar adj (appropriate for punishment)
Sample sentences
13 total sentences available.
A miserable quarrel provoked by the hardheartedness of the landlord of a public-house, who insisted upon having three pounds of bread in payment for two pennyworth of wine which the woman had regaled herself with, was the circumstance that constituted the charge, and which, if substantiated would be punishable by five or ten years' imprisonment.
Source: tatoeba (909168)
Homicide is punishable by death.
Source: tatoeba (1042314)
That's not just bad, it's also punishable by the law.
Source: tatoeba (1178907)
Showing 4 of 13 available sentences.
Keep exploring
Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.