Synonyms for sentence
- noun
- verb
Most common
conviction verdict condemnation decision saying epigram phrase
Synonyms by meaning
Noun
1. Conviction
conviction, verdict, condemnation, judgment US, judgement UK, decision, decree, censure, determination
Other
punishment, penalty, period, time slang
Verb
Definitions
- n. 1
The decision or judgement of a jury or court; a verdict.
The court returned a sentence of guilt in the first charge, but innocence in the second.
- n. 2
The judicial order for a punishment to be imposed on a person convicted of a crime.
The judge declared a sentence of death by hanging for the infamous child rapist.
- n. 3
A punishment imposed on a person convicted of a crime.
- v. 1
To declare a sentence on a convicted person; to condemn to punishment.
The judge sentenced the embezzler to ten years in prison, along with a hefty fine.
Related words
- Word family
- sentential
- Phrases
- composite sentence fused sentence jail sentence life sentence prison sentence run-on sentence sentence adverb sentence case
- Is a kind of
- formula syntagma utterance
Choose the right word
In stating the penalty of an offense, the legal word sentence is now more common than condemn; as, he was sentenced to imprisonment; but it is good usage to say, he was condemned to imprisonment.
J. C. Fernald, English Synonyms and Antonyms (1914)
Example sentences
- judgment Yanni is going to face God on the Day of Judgment.
- conviction An opinion is shocking only if it is a conviction.
- verdict No matter what you think, the verdict wasn't just.
- condemnation His remarks added up to a condemnation of my plan.
- phrase You should put quotation marks around this phrase.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| sentence | steady | |
| judgment | falling | |
| conviction | falling | |
| verdict | falling | |
| condemnation | falling | |
| epigram | steady |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 4 letters
- time1, damn1, text1, doom1
- 5 letters
- judge1, verse1, maxim2, axiom3, adage2
- 6 letters
- saying2, period3, phrase1, clause1, decree2
- 7 letters
- penalty3, passage2, verdict2, condemn2, convict2, censure2, precept2, epigram3, adjudge2
- 8 letters
- decision3, judgment2, apothegm
- 9 letters
- judgement2
- 10 letters
- punishment3, conviction3, apophthegm
- 12 letters
- condemnation4
- 13 letters
- determination5
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (maxim2 = 2 syllables).