Definitions for penal

penal pe·nal

Spelling: [peen-l]
IPA: /ˈpin l/

Penal is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 70 anagrams from letters in penal (aelnp).

Definitions for penal

adjective

  1. of, relating to, or involving punishment, as for crimes or offenses.
  2. prescribing punishment:
  3. constituting punishment:
  4. used as a place of confinement and punishment:
  5. subject to or incurring punishment:
  6. payable or forfeitable as a penalty:

Origin of penal

1400-50; late Middle English Latin poenālis, equivalent to poen(a) penalty (Greek poinḗ fine) + -ālis -al1

Examples for penal

Our whole conception of rights, and especially of penal law, should then change.

Mr Haredale is a sufferer from the penal laws, and I can't expect his favour.'

Step by step, the penal and custodial apparatus of the United States has become larger, more belligerent, and more brazen.

At present, penal law is absolutely impotent in this matter.

Are you conscious that you are rendering yourself liable to penal servitude?

Who then could be tried as a war criminal under the 1871 penal code?

This provision is, however, absent from the penal Code Iran approved in 2012, though apparently not yet signed into law.

And then there is Article 475 of the penal code, which was the focus of so much discussion online.

This sum, outlined in the penal code, is double for a male than it is for a female.

I told him the whole story, but all he said was, 'ten years' penal servitude.'

Word Value for penal
Scrable

7

Words with friends

10

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