Standard Lemma guide

unpunished

adj · 2 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

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  • CMU ARPABET: AH0 N P AH1 N IH0 SH T Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

adj

Meaning 1

Not punished

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: not-comparable

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

adjective

Meaning 2

not punished

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • would he forget the crime and let it go unpunished?

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: punished

History

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Germanic *un- Proto-West Germanic *un- Old English un- Middle English un- English un- English punished English unpunished From un- + punished.

Across languages

Translations

21 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Armenian: անպատիժ (anpatiž) — not punished
  • Bulgarian: безнака́зан (beznakázan) — not punished
  • Catalan: impune — not punished
  • Dutch: straffeloos — not punished
  • Dutch: ongestraft — not punished
  • Finnish: rankaisematon — not punished
  • French: impuni — not punished
  • German: unbestraft — not punished
  • Ancient Greek: ἀζήμιος (azḗmios) — not punished
  • Hungarian: büntetlen — not punished
  • Hungarian: büntetés nélküli — not punished
  • Latin: inultus — not punished
  • Plautdietsch: onbestroft — not punished
  • Polish: bezkarny — not punished
  • Portuguese: impune — not punished
  • Romanian: nepedepsit — not punished
  • Russian: безнака́занный (beznakázannyj) — not punished
  • Spanish: inulto — not punished
  • Spanish: impune — not punished
  • Spanish: no castigado — not punished
  • Ukrainian: безка́рний (bezkárnyj) — not punished