UNPUNISHED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does unpunished mean? 

• UNPUNISHED (adjective)
  The adjective UNPUNISHED has 1 sense:

1. not punished

  Familiarity information: UNPUNISHED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNPUNISHED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Not punished

Context example:

would he forget the crime and let it go unpunished?

Similar:

uncorrected; undisciplined (not subjected to correction or discipline)

Antonym:

punished (subjected to a penalty (as pain or shame or restraint or loss) for an offense or fault or in order to coerce some behavior (as a confession or obedience))

 Context examples 

Her eager defence of her brother, her hope of its being hushed up, her evident agitation, were all of a piece with something very bad; and if there was a woman of character in existence, who could treat as a trifle this sin of the first magnitude, who would try to gloss it over, and desire to have it unpunished, she could believe Miss Crawford to be the woman!

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)