Words and phrases that have a meaning related to chastening: (144 results)
Often used in the same context:
dispiriting, abject, humiliating, humbling, drubbing, salutary, defeat, crueller, wretched, ignominy, dreadful, capitulation, sobering, blackwash, schoolmasterly, ignominious, equanimity, galling, tetchiness, dismal, demoralizing, calamitous, obdurate, instructive, shellacking, discomfit, cussedness, embarrassing, rueful, unwisdom, resounding, disastrous, lamentable, mauling, painful, thrashing, phlegmatically, reproach, meekest, fallibility, dreich, spineless, cocksureness, unworldliness, insipid, conquerors, woe, wholeheartedness, sheepishness, mortifying, harsh, disappointing, embarrassment, miserable, comeuppance, attritional, humility, daftness, grim, triumph, disappointments, unwonted, inglorious, depressing, slow handclap, hwyl, unsettling, unedifying, purblind, unconvincing, dour, woeful, abnegation, craven, insipidness, petulance, imperious, dourest, edifying, churlishness, unlearnt, frailties, stinging, devilment, collywobbles, callow, exertions, reprieving, auguries, despond, epiphanic, abasement, heartening, dismaying, battering, sniggering, meekness, glorying, ruthlessness, shambolic, speechlessness, unpleasant, chastisement, castigation, mortification, travail, discouragement, discouragements, tribulation, afflictions, disquietude, sickness, tribulations, affliction, chastisements, disappointment, privations, temptation, admonition, anxiety, censure, disciplining, uplifting, chilling, unnerving, disheartening, disillusioning, humanizing, redeeming, saddening, afflicting, bittersweet, blasting, blighting, comforting, consoling, desolating, disturbing
More general:
rebuke, reprehension, reprimand, reproof, reproval
Synonyms:
Also try:correction
— Nouns for chastening: rod, influence, hand, experience, effects, influences, effect, lesson, process, power, sense, more...
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