unpenalized
- adjective
- /ʌnˈpɛnəlˌaɪzd/
- The teacher decided that the student's late submission would be unpenalized this time due to extenuating circumstances.
Examples
-
Feeding this is a style that increases chippy play with tons of extra contact, from shoving to full-out punches, a lot of it going unpenalized.
Blog text (21) -
Now every single time there's an unpenalized illegal hold, even one perhaps an ordinary referee would not necessarily have seen, it is pointed out to us.
Blog text (22) -
We can view the regularization penalty as a force that "pulls the solution back" from the unpenalized optimum.
Academic text (2017) -
Not to sound conspiratorial, but what is Google going to think when your currently unpenalized site submits 500 links for disavowal?
Blog text (21) -
If you think that violating someone else is happening because doctors and nurses "need lives too," then you, we, or they need to advocate for much stronger labor regulation in this field, meaning more days off, fewer hours in a row, guaranteed days off unless there is some type of emergency, and unpenalized "mental health" vacations, etc.
Blog text (8) -
So unpenalized sites submitting links for disavowal could literally shoot themselves in the foot by telling Google that the majority of their links are spam and incur future penalties.
Blog text (21) -
The referee allowed the tackle to go unpenalized, even though it was clearly a foul.
-
In some cases, minor infractions may remain unpenalized to encourage fair play among athletes.
Synonyms
Not made to face any consequences after doing something wrong
Antonyms
How Penalized
Surface Forms
Morphology
unpenalized = penalized (transparent) = un + penal + ized
The prefix 'un-' straightforwardly negates the adjective 'penalized', producing the meaning 'not penalized'.
Etymology
The word unpenalized starts with un- meaning 'not' and the rest comes from the same root as penalty, which means 'punishment' or 'a fine'. So something unpenalized is 'not punished' or 'not given a penalty' for an action.