admonition

Noun

Meaning

Gentle or friendly reproof; counseling against a fault or error; expression of authoritative advice; friendly caution or warning.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

reproof warning admonishment reprehension monition example direction criticism instruction advice guidance notice suggestion lecture correction
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Antonyms

congratulations encomium authority agreement approval permission
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Hypernyms

advice rebuke reprimand reproof reprehension reproval

Hyponyms

example lesson object lesson deterrent example

Related terms

admonish

Anagrams

domination

Examples

He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both; but he that gives good admonition and bad example, builds with one hand and pulls down with the other. Francis Bacon

It is a mistake to interpret too literally and sweepingly the poet's admonition that things are not what they seem. Sometimes they are, and it is often essential to survival to know when they are and when they are not. Dean Acheson

This is that which We have revealed for the First Believer in Him Whom God shall make manifest, that it may serve as an admonition from Our presence unto all mankind. Báb

I read the other day some verses written by an eminent painter which were original and not conventional. The soul always hears an admonition in such lines, let the subject be what it may. Ralph Waldo Emerson

What I mean by the Muse is that unimpeded clearness of the intuitive powers, which a perfectly truthful adherence to every admonition of the higher instincts would bring to a finely organized human being. Margaret Fuller

Joseph Alleine, The Solemn Warnings of the Dead: or, An Admonition to Unconverted Sinners (1804), Chapter 3. Chinese Proverb

Close letter words and terms

admonishing admonishingly admonishment admonitional admonitioner admonitionist