punishing
adjective
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
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- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
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Senses
Sense 1 adjective
resulting in punishment
the king imposed a punishing tax
Related & opposite
- punish participle
Sense 2 adjective
characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort
worked their arduous way up the mining valley
Related & opposite
- toil derivation
- arduousness derivation
- laboriousness derivation
- ruggedness derivation
- burdensomeness derivation
- effortful similar to
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | participle | Related & opposite | punish |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | toil |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | arduousness |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | laboriousness |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | ruggedness |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | burdensomeness |
| 2 | similar to | Related & opposite | effortful |