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preachy
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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
remonstrative
collapse
related words >
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
moralistic
collapse
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
objecting
collapse
related words >
complaining
,
disputatious
,
disputing
,
dissentient
,
dissenting
,
expostulative
,
expostulatory
,
fractious
,
noncooperative
,
obstructive
,
on the barricades
,
proof against
,
protestant
,
protesting
,
rebellious
,
recalcitrant
,
refractory
,
reluctant
,
remonstrant
,
remonstrative
,
renitent
,
repellent
,
resistant
,
resisting
,
resistive
,
retardant
,
retardative
,
uncooperative
,
under protest
,
unsubmissive
,
unyielding
,
up in arms
,
withstanding
protesting
collapse
related words >
complaining
,
disputatious
,
disputing
,
dissentient
,
dissenting
,
expostulative
,
expostulatory
,
fractious
,
noncooperative
,
objecting
,
obstructive
,
on the barricades
,
proof against
,
protestant
,
rebellious
,
recalcitrant
,
refractory
,
reluctant
,
remonstrant
,
remonstrative
,
renitent
,
repellent
,
resistant
,
resisting
,
resistive
,
retardant
,
retardative
,
uncooperative
,
under protest
,
unsubmissive
,
unyielding
,
up in arms
,
withstanding
advisory
collapse
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
hortatory
collapse
related words >
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
monitory
collapse
related words >
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
collapse
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
directive
collapse
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
collapse
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
warning
collapse
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
collapse
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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