Reformatory Synonyms

rĭ-fôrmə-tôrē
Tending to correct
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. reformative
  2. amendatory
  3. corrective
  4. emendatory
  5. remedial
Correctional institution for the detention and discipline and training of young or first offenders
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. reform-school
  2. house of correction
  3. penal institution
  4. penitentiary
  5. school for young delinquents
  6. borstal (British)
  7. kids' pen
  8. young-stir
  9. little house
  10. junior-college
  11. training school

Words Related to Reformatory

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Reformatory Sentence Examples

  • Hoyt the plans were changed and instead the Industrial Reformatory was.

  • Warminster has also a free school established in 1707, a missionary college, a training home for lady missionaries and a reformatory for boys.

  • The acts referred to include those relating to the diseases of animals, destructive insects, explosives, fish conservancy, gas meters, margarine, police, reformatory and industrial schools, riot (damages), sale of food and drugs, weights and measures.

  • Under the supervision of a board of prison commissioners, which appoints the superintendent and warden of each, are a reformatory prison for women at Sherborn (1877), a state reformatory for men at Concord (1884), a state prison at Boston (Charlestown), and a prison camp and hospital at Rutland (1905).

  • Orphans of respectable parents have a home at Birmingham, and the reformatory school has done splendid service for lads who have committed a first offence.

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