CHASTENED Synonyms: 140 Similar and Opposite Words

chastened

verb

past tense of chasten

as in punished

to inflict a penalty on for a fault or crime chastened the child with five minutes of sitting in the corner

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as in humiliated

to reduce to a lower standing in one's own eyes or in others' eyes the unexpected loss to a second-rate player really chastened the tournament's top-seeded tennis star

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Recent Examples of chastened Perhaps my sisters would say that my sojourn in Kansas and Missouri, and then all the way to Massachusetts to visit my dead husband’s family, chastened me. —

Literary Hub, 21 Apr. 2026 By now too many of us are wary of what’s being sold — sensitized by two years of deepfakes and soft slop, chastened by two decades of social media and rage-farming. —

Steven Zeitchik, HollywoodReporter, 9 Feb. 2026 Russia and China, though chastened by their inability to protect Venezuela, retain a strong interest in propping up Havana, given Cuba’s location just 90 miles south of Key West. —

Vivian Salama, The Atlantic, 11 Jan. 2026 But do the hierarchy want another frank agitator in Maresca, having been sufficiently chastened by Amorim’s semi-regular public declarations? —

Peter South, New York Times, 5 Jan. 2026 Further, chastened by the backlash, the Warren Court, for the next four years with rare exceptions, maintained the status quo on a broad array of issues. —

Time, 14 Nov. 2025 Many have read Gödel and come away chastened by the limits of certainty—without concluding, as Richardson did, that the logical next step was to spend your life playing cards and paying prostitutes. —

Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 4 Aug. 2025

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Then, in Leverkusen, Newcastle had the two best chances, but neither Neave nor Joe Brayson could take them and they were punished.

— Chris Waugh, New York Times, 12 Dec. 2025
The announcement was a stunning end to Moore’s short, up-and-down tenure that saw the Wolverines take a step back on the field after winning the national championship and being punished by the NCAA.

— Chantz Martin, FOXNews.com, 11 Dec. 2025