Exact Match:
- cautionary
- tending to ward off; "the swastika...a very ancient prophylactic symbol occurring among all peoples"- Victor Schultze
Synonyms:
- no synonyms found
Related Words:
- preachy
collapse - inclined to or marked by tedious moralization related words >
- admonitory,
- advisory,
- cautionary,
- consultative,
- consultatory,
- didactic,
- directive,
- exhortative,
- exhortatory,
- expostulative,
- expostulatory,
- hortative,
- hortatory,
- instructive,
- monitorial,
- monitory,
- moral,
- moralistic,
- moralizing,
- recommendatory,
- remonstrant,
- remonstrative,
- remonstratory,
- sententious,
- sermonizing,
- teachy,
- warning
- admonitory,
- advisory,
- cautionary,
- consultative,
- consultatory,
- didactic,
- directive,
- exhortative,
- exhortatory,
- expostulative,
- expostulatory,
- hortative,
- hortatory,
- instructive,
- monitorial,
- monitory,
- moralistic,
- objecting,
- preachy,
- protestant,
- protesting,
- recommendatory,
- remonstrant,
- remonstratory,
- sententious,
- under protest,
- warning
- abusive,
- admonitory,
- bludgeoning,
- blustering,
- browbeating,
- bulldozing,
- bullying,
- cautionary,
- comminatory,
- denunciatory,
- deterrent,
- discouraging,
- disinclining,
- dissuading,
- dissuasive,
- expostulatory,
- fear-inspiring,
- foreboding,
- hectoring,
- imminent,
- lowering,
- menacing,
- minacious,
- minatory,
- monitory,
- ominous,
- terroristic,
- terrorizing,
- threatening,
- threatful
- moralistic
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- narrowly and conventionally moral related words >
- admonitory,
- advisory,
- axiological,
- cautionary,
- consultative,
- consultatory,
- didactic,
- directive,
- ethical,
- ethological,
- exhortative,
- exhortatory,
- expostulative,
- expostulatory,
- hortative,
- hortatory,
- instructive,
- monitorial,
- monitory,
- moral,
- noble,
- preachy,
- principled,
- recommendatory,
- remonstrant,
- remonstrative,
- remonstratory,
- right-minded,
- righteous,
- sententious,
- virtuous,
- warning
- advisory
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- an announcement that usually advises or warns the public of some threat; "a frost advisory"
- giving advice; "an advisory memorandum", "his function was purely consultative" related words >
- admonition,
- admonitory,
- bulletin,
- cautionary,
- communicative,
- consultative,
- consultatory,
- council,
- deliberative,
- didactic,
- directive,
- educational,
- educative,
- enlightening,
- exhortative,
- exhortatory,
- expostulative,
- expostulatory,
- hortative,
- hortatory,
- informational,
- informative,
- informing,
- instructive,
- monitorial,
- monitory,
- moralistic,
- notice,
- preachy,
- prediction,
- recommendatory,
- remonstrant,
- remonstrative,
- remonstratory,
- sententious,
- synodal,
- synodic,
- warning
- discouraging
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- depriving of confidence or hope or enthusiasm and hence often deterring action; "where never is heard a discouraging word"
- expressing disapproval related words >
- admonitory,
- alarming,
- awing,
- black,
- bleak,
- cautionary,
- chilling,
- daunting,
- depressant,
- depressing,
- depressive,
- deterrent,
- deterring,
- disconcerting,
- disheartening,
- disinclining,
- dismal,
- dismaying,
- dispiriting,
- disquieting,
- dissuading,
- dissuasive,
- down,
- dreary,
- expostulatory,
- fear-inspiring,
- fearful,
- fearsome,
- forbidding,
- forestalling,
- frightening,
- frightful,
- hindering,
- intimidating,
- monitory,
- oppressive,
- overawing,
- preclusive,
- preventative,
- preventive,
- prohibitive,
- prophylactic,
- scaring,
- scary,
- startling
- admonitory,
- advisory,
- autodidactic,
- cajoling,
- cautionary,
- coeducational,
- consultative,
- consultatory,
- cultural,
- didactic,
- directive,
- disciplinary,
- edifying,
- educating,
- educational,
- educative,
- enlightening,
- exhortative,
- exhortatory,
- expostulative,
- expostulatory,
- homiletic,
- hortative,
- illuminating,
- informative,
- initiatory,
- instructive,
- introductory,
- lecturing,
- monitorial,
- monitory,
- moralistic,
- persuading,
- persuasive,
- preaching,
- preachy,
- preceptive,
- propaedeutic,
- recommendatory,
- remonstrant,
- remonstrative,
- remonstratory,
- self-teaching,
- sententious,
- suasive,
- teaching,
- tuitionary,
- warning,
- wheedling
- admonishing,
- admonitory,
- advisory,
- augural,
- cautionary,
- cautioning,
- communicative,
- consultative,
- consultatory,
- counseling,
- critical,
- deterrent,
- didactic,
- directive,
- discouraging,
- disinclining,
- dissuading,
- dissuasive,
- educational,
- educative,
- enlightening,
- exemplary,
- exhortative,
- exhortatory,
- expostulative,
- expostulatory,
- forerunning,
- foreshadowing,
- foreshowing,
- foretokening,
- forewarning,
- heavy with meaning,
- hortative,
- hortatory,
- indicative,
- informational,
- informative,
- informing,
- instructive,
- intimidating,
- intuitive,
- meaningful,
- monitorial,
- moralistic,
- moralizing,
- notificational,
- notifying,
- preachy,
- precursive,
- precursory,
- predictive,
- prefigurative,
- preindicative,
- premonitory,
- presageful,
- presaging,
- prognostic,
- prognosticative,
- recommendatory,
- remonstrant,
- remonstrative,
- remonstratory,
- sententious,
- significant,
- warning
- instructive
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- serving to instruct of enlighten or inform related words >
- admonitory,
- advisory,
- authoritative,
- autodidactic,
- binding,
- canonical,
- cautionary,
- coeducational,
- commanding,
- communicative,
- compelling,
- consultative,
- consultatory,
- cultural,
- decretal,
- decretive,
- decretory,
- dictated,
- dictating,
- didactic,
- directive,
- disciplinary,
- edifying,
- educating,
- educational,
- educative,
- enlightening,
- exhortative,
- exhortatory,
- expostulative,
- expostulatory,
- formulary,
- hard and fast,
- helpful,
- homiletic,
- hortative,
- hortatory,
- illuminating,
- imperative,
- informational,
- informative,
- informing,
- initiatory,
- introductory,
- jussive,
- lecturing,
- mandating,
- mandatory,
- monitorial,
- monitory,
- moralistic,
- moralizing,
- obligating,
- official,
- peremptory,
- preaching,
- preachy,
- preceptive,
- prescribed,
- prescript,
- prescriptive,
- propaedeutic,
- recommendatory,
- regulation,
- remonstrant,
- remonstrative,
- remonstratory,
- revealing,
- rubric,
- self-teaching,
- sententious,
- standard,
- statutory,
- teaching,
- tuitionary,
- warning
- exemplary
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- worthy of imitation; "exemplary behavior"; "model citizens" related words >
- admirable,
- admonishing,
- admonitory,
- archetypal,
- archetypical,
- beyond all praise,
- blameless,
- cautionary,
- cautioning,
- characteristic,
- classic,
- classical,
- commendable,
- consummate,
- creditable,
- deserving,
- deterrent,
- developed,
- distinctive,
- distinguishing,
- estimable,
- excellent,
- expert,
- finished,
- fully developed,
- guiltless,
- ideal,
- illustrative,
- inculpable,
- innocent,
- irreprehensible,
- laudable,
- masterful,
- masterly,
- mature,
- matured,
- meritorious,
- model,
- monitorial,
- monitory,
- natural,
- naturalistic,
- normal,
- noteworthy,
- notificational,
- notifying,
- outstanding,
- paradigmatic,
- perfected,
- polished,
- praiseworthy,
- precedential,
- proficient,
- prototypal,
- pure,
- quintessential,
- realistic,
- refined,
- regular,
- representative,
- righteous,
- ripe,
- ripened,
- sample,
- standard,
- superior,
- t,
- true to form,
- true to type,
- typal,
- typic,
- typical,
- unblamable,
- unexceptionable,
- usual,
- virtuous,
- warning,
- well-deserving,
- worthy
- deterrent
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- tending to deter; "the deterrent effects of high prices" related words >
- admonishing,
- admonitory,
- alarming,
- awing,
- bar,
- block,
- blockade,
- bottleneck,
- catch,
- cautionary,
- cautioning,
- check,
- chill,
- chilling,
- cold water,
- cordon,
- curtain,
- damp,
- damper,
- daunting,
- determent,
- deterring,
- difficulty,
- disconcerting,
- discouragement,
- discouraging,
- disheartening,
- disincentive,
- disinclining,
- dismaying,
- disquieting,
- dissuading,
- dissuasion,
- dissuasive,
- drawback,
- exemplary,
- expostulatory,
- fear-inspiring,
- fearful,
- fearsome,
- forbidding,
- forestalling,
- frightening,
- frightful,
- hang-up,
- hazard,
- hindrance,
- hitch,
- hurdle,
- impediment,
- intimidating,
- joker,
- monitorial,
- monitory,
- notificational,
- notifying,
- objection,
- obstacle,
- obstruction,
- obstructive,
- one small difficulty,
- overawing,
- preclusive,
- preventative,
- preventive,
- prohibitive,
- prophylactic,
- rub,
- scaring,
- scary,
- snag,
- startling,
- stumbling block,
- stumbling stone,
- warning,
- wet blanket
- directive
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- a pronouncement encouraging or banning some activity; "the boss loves to send us directives" related words >
- actuating,
- admonitory,
- advisory,
- aimable,
- aimed,
- animating,
- causal,
- causative,
- cautionary,
- chief,
- commanding,
- communication,
- compelling,
- consultative,
- consultatory,
- controlling,
- decree,
- decretal,
- decretive,
- decretory,
- dictating,
- didactic,
- directed,
- directing,
- direction,
- directional,
- directorial,
- directory,
- dirigible,
- driving,
- edict,
- exhortative,
- exhortatory,
- expostulative,
- expostulatory,
- general orders,
- governing,
- guidable,
- guiding,
- head,
- hortative,
- hortatory,
- impelling,
- imperative,
- impulsive,
- inducive,
- instruction,
- instructive,
- jussive,
- leadable,
- leading,
- managerial,
- managing,
- mandating,
- memo,
- monitorial,
- monitory,
- moralistic,
- motivating,
- motivational,
- motive,
- moving,
- notice,
- obligating,
- on the mark,
- on the nose,
- peremptory,
- pointable,
- preachy,
- precept,
- preceptive,
- prescript,
- prescription,
- prescriptive,
- pressing,
- recommendatory,
- regulating,
- regulation,
- regulative,
- regulatory,
- remonstrant,
- remonstrative,
- remonstratory,
- rule,
- ruling,
- sententious,
- steerable,
- trainable,
- ukase,
- urgent,
- warning,
- well-aimed,
- well-directed,
- word
- didactic
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- instructive (especially excessively) related words >
- Alcaic,
- Anacreontic,
- Castalian,
- Homeric,
- Hudibrastic,
- Pierian,
- Pindaric,
- Theocritean,
- admonitory,
- advisory,
- authoritative,
- autodidactic,
- bardic,
- binding,
- bucolic,
- canonical,
- cautionary,
- coeducational,
- consultative,
- consultatory,
- cultural,
- dictated,
- directive,
- disciplinary,
- dithyrambic,
- dramatic,
- eclogic,
- edifying,
- educating,
- educational,
- educative,
- elegiac,
- enlightening,
- epic,
- exhortative,
- exhortatory,
- expostulative,
- expostulatory,
- formulary,
- hard and fast,
- heroic,
- homiletic,
- hortative,
- hortatory,
- idyllic,
- illuminating,
- informative,
- initiatory,
- instructive,
- introductory,
- lecturing,
- mandatory,
- mock-heroic,
- monitorial,
- monitory,
- moral,
- moralistic,
- moralizing,
- narrative,
- official,
- pastoral,
- poetic,
- poetico-mystical,
- poetico-mythological,
- poetico-philosophic,
- poetlike,
- preaching,
- preachy,
- preceptive,
- prescribed,
- prescript,
- prescriptive,
- propaedeutic,
- recommendatory,
- regulation,
- remonstrant,
- remonstrative,
- remonstratory,
- rhapsodic,
- rubric,
- runic,
- sapphic,
- self-teaching,
- sententious,
- sermonizing,
- skaldic,
- standard,
- statutory,
- teaching,
- teachy,
- tuitionary,
- warning
- abusive,
- admonitory,
- apocalyptic,
- augural,
- bad,
- badly off,
- baleful,
- baneful,
- black,
- bludgeoning,
- blustering,
- bodeful,
- boding,
- browbeating,
- bulldozing,
- bullying,
- cautionary,
- comminatory,
- corroding,
- corrosive,
- corrupting,
- corruptive,
- counterproductive,
- damaging,
- dark,
- deadly,
- deleterious,
- denunciatory,
- depressed,
- detrimental,
- dire,
- direful,
- disadvantageous,
- disserviceable,
- distressing,
- donsie,
- doomful,
- dreary,
- evil,
- evil-starred,
- fatal,
- fateful,
- fear-inspiring,
- forbidding,
- foreboding,
- foreshadowing,
- foretelling,
- foretokening,
- fortuneless,
- funest,
- gloomy,
- grim,
- hapless,
- harmful,
- hectoring,
- hostile,
- hurtful,
- ill,
- ill off,
- ill-boding,
- ill-fated,
- ill-omened,
- ill-starred,
- imminent,
- in adverse circumstances,
- inauspicious,
- indicative,
- inhospitable,
- injurious,
- intimidating,
- lethal,
- lowering,
- luckless,
- malefic,
- maleficent,
- malevolent,
- malign,
- malignant,
- mantic,
- meaningful,
- menacing,
- minacious,
- minatory,
- mischievous,
- noisome,
- noxious,
- of evil portent,
- oracular,
- out of luck,
- pernicious,
- planet-struck,
- poisonous,
- portending,
- portentous,
- predictive,
- prejudicial,
- premonitory,
- prognostic,
- prophetic,
- sad,
- scatheful,
- short of luck,
- sibyllic,
- sinister,
- somber,
- star-crossed,
- terroristic,
- terrorizing,
- threatening,
- threatful,
- toxic,
- unblessed,
- underprivileged,
- unfavorable,
- unfortunate,
- unfriendly,
- unhappy,
- unlucky,
- unpromising,
- unpropitious,
- unprosperous,
- unprovidential,
- untoward,
- vaticinal,
- venenate,
- veneniferous,
- venenous,
- venomous,
- vicious,
- virulent,
- warning
- warning
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- a message informing of danger related words >
- admonishing,
- admonition,
- admonitory,
- advice,
- advising,
- advisory,
- advocacy,
- alerting,
- augural,
- blackmail,
- briefing,
- bulldozing,
- call,
- call for,
- caution,
- cautionary,
- cautioning,
- caveat,
- claim,
- clue,
- commination,
- consultation,
- consultative,
- consultatory,
- contribution,
- council,
- counsel,
- cue,
- demand,
- demand for,
- denunciation,
- determent,
- deterrence,
- deterrent,
- didactic,
- direction,
- directive,
- draft,
- drain,
- duty,
- empty threat,
- exaction,
- exemplary,
- exhortation,
- exhortative,
- exhortatory,
- expostulation,
- expostulative,
- expostulatory,
- extortion,
- extortionate demand,
- foreboding,
- forerunning,
- foreshadowing,
- foreshowing,
- foretokening,
- forewarning,
- frightening off,
- guidance,
- heavy demand,
- heavy with meaning,
- hint,
- hortation,
- hortative,
- hortatory,
- idea,
- idle threat,
- imminence,
- implied threat,
- imposition,
- impost,
- indent,
- indicative,
- insistent demand,
- instruction,
- instructive,
- intimidation,
- intuitive,
- levy,
- meaningful,
- menace,
- monition,
- monitorial,
- monitory,
- moralistic,
- nonnegotiable demand,
- notice,
- notificational,
- notifying,
- office,
- opinion,
- order,
- parley,
- passing word,
- pointer,
- preachy,
- precursive,
- precursory,
- predictive,
- prefigurative,
- preindicative,
- premonitory,
- presageful,
- presaging,
- prognostic,
- prognosticative,
- promise of harm,
- proposal,
- recommendation,
- recommendatory,
- remonstrance,
- remonstrant,
- remonstrative,
- remonstratory,
- requirement,
- requisition,
- rush,
- rush order,
- sententious,
- significant,
- steer,
- suggestion,
- sword of Damocles,
- talking out of,
- tax,
- taxing,
- thought,
- threat,
- threateningness,
- threatfulness,
- tip,
- tip-off,
- tribute,
- ultimatum,
- whisper
- sententious
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- abounding in or given to pompous or aphoristic moralizing; "too often the significant episode deteriorates into sententious conversation"- Kathleen Barnes related words >
- Gongoresque,
- Johnsonian,
- Spartan,
- abbreviated,
- abridged,
- admonitory,
- advisory,
- affected,
- allegorical,
- aphoristic,
- aposiopestic,
- associational,
- axiomatic,
- bedizened,
- big-sounding,
- brief,
- brusque,
- cautionary,
- clipped,
- close,
- compact,
- compendious,
- compressed,
- concise,
- condensed,
- connotational,
- connotative,
- consultative,
- consultatory,
- contracted,
- convoluted,
- crisp,
- curt,
- cut,
- declamatory,
- definable,
- denotational,
- denotative,
- didactic,
- directive,
- docked,
- elevated,
- elliptic,
- eloquent,
- epigrammatic,
- euphuistic,
- exhortative,
- exhortatory,
- expostulative,
- expostulatory,
- expressive,
- extended,
- extensional,
- facund,
- figurative,
- flamboyant,
- flaming,
- flashy,
- flaunting,
- formulaic,
- formulistic,
- full of meaning,
- full of point,
- full of substance,
- fulsome,
- garish,
- gaudy,
- gnomic,
- grandiloquent,
- grandiose,
- grandisonant,
- high-flowing,
- high-flown,
- high-flying,
- high-sounding,
- highfalutin,
- hortative,
- hortatory,
- indicative,
- inkhorn,
- instructive,
- intelligible,
- intensional,
- interpretable,
- labyrinthine,
- laconic,
- lexiphanic,
- lofty,
- lurid,
- magniloquent,
- meaning,
- meaningful,
- meaty,
- meretricious,
- metaphorical,
- monitorial,
- monitory,
- moralistic,
- orotund,
- ostentatious,
- overdone,
- overelaborate,
- overinvolved,
- overwrought,
- pedantic,
- piquant,
- pithy,
- platitudinous,
- pointed,
- pompous,
- preachy,
- pregnant,
- pretentious,
- proverbial,
- pruned,
- pungent,
- readable,
- recommendatory,
- referential,
- remonstrant,
- remonstrative,
- remonstratory,
- reserved,
- rhetorical,
- rich,
- sensational,
- sensationalistic,
- short,
- short and sweet,
- shortened,
- showy,
- significant,
- significative,
- sonorous,
- stilted,
- substantial,
- succinct,
- suggestive,
- summary,
- symbolic,
- synopsized,
- taciturn,
- tall,
- terse,
- tight,
- to the point,
- tortuous,
- transferred,
- truncated,
- warning
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