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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | cautionary |
| Synonyms: | admonishing, admonitory, cautioning, exemplary, exhortatory, monitorial, monitory, ominous, premonitory, threatening |
| Main Entry: | warn |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | give notice of possible occurrence |
| Synonyms: | acquaint, address, admonish, advise, advocate, alert, apprise, caution, clue, clue in, counsel, cry wolf, deprecate, direct, dissuade, enjoin, exhort, fill in, forbid, forearm, forewarn, give fair warning, give the high sign, give warning, guide, hint, inform, instruct, lay it out, make aware, notify, order, post, predict, prepare, prescribe, prompt, put on guard, recommend, remind, remonstrate, reprove, signal, suggest, summon, tell, threaten, tip, tip off, urge, wise up |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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| Concept: | Warning. |
| Category: | 2. Subservience to Ends; Contingent Subservience |
| Synonyms: |
-nouns
warning, early warning, caution, caveat; notice (information); premonition, premonishment; prediction; contraindication, lesson, dehortation; admonition, monition; alarm., handwriting on the wall, mene mene tekel upharsin, red flag, yellow flag; fog-signal, foghorn; siren; monitor, warning voice, Cassandra, signs of the times, Mother Cary's chickens, stormy petrel, bird of ill omen, gathering clouds, clouds in the horizon, death watch., watchtower, beacon, signal post; lighthouse (indication of locality)., sentinel, sentry; watch, watchman; watch and ward; watchdog, bandog, housedog; patrol, patrolman, vedette, picket, bivouac, scout, spy, spial; undercover agent, mole, plainclothesman; advanced guard, rear guard; lookout., cautiousness.
-verbs
warn, caution; forewarn, prewarn; admonish, premonish; give notice, give warning, dehort; menace (threaten); put on one's guard; sound the alarm; croak., beware, ware; take warning, take heed at one's peril; keep watch and ward (care).
-adjectives
-adverbs
-phrases
ne reveillez pas le chat qui dort; foenum habet in cornu; caveat actor; le silence du people est la legon des rois; verbum sat sapienti; un averti en vaut deux.
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| Main Entry: | admonition |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | caution |
| Synonyms: | advice, apprisal, counsel, forewarning, warning |
| Main Entry: | advice |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | recommendation |
| Synonyms: | admonition, advisement, advocacy, aid, bum steer, caution, charge, consultation, counsel, directions, dissuasion, encouragement, exhortation, forewarning, guidance, help, information, injunction, input, instruction, judgment, lesson, news, opinion, persuasion, prescription, proposal, proposition, recommendation, steer, suggestion, teaching, telltale, tidings, tip, tip-off, two cents' worth, view, warning, word, word to the wise |
| Notes: | advise (verb) means 'to offer advice to or counsel'; advice (noun) is an opinion about what could or should be done about a situation or problem |
| Antonyms: | betrayal, deceit, deception, falsehood, lie, misinformation, misrepresentation |
| Main Entry: | alarm |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | warning, signaling device |
| Synonyms: | Mayday, SOS, alert, bell, blast, buzzer, call, caution, clock, cry, drum, flap, flash*, forewarning, gong, high sign, horn, nod, scramble*, scream, shout, sign, signal, siren, squeal, tip, tip off, tocsin, trumpet, warning, whistle, wink, yell |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | augury |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | omen |
| Synonyms: | auspice, boding, forerunner, foretoken, forewarning, harbinger, herald, portent, precursor, presage, prognostication, promise, prophecy, sign, token, warning |
| Notes: | omen has a negative connotation, a connotation absent from the word augury; generally, augury bodes well for the future, an omen bodes ill |
| Main Entry: | beep |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | sound from electronic device |
| Synonyms: | bell sound, bleep, breedle, computer sound, ding, eep, feep, signal, tone, warning |
| Main Entry: | cautionary tale |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | piece of advice |
| Synonyms: | a few words of wisdom, admonition, advisory, caution light, caveat, deterrent example, enough said, event illustrating a hazard, forewarning, hint, lesson, message, moral, omen, portent, red flag, red flag, sign of things to come, sign of things to come, wake-up call, wake-up call, warning, word to the wise, word to the wise |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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