warn

Speech parts

1. warn - Verb

2. Warn - Proper noun

Meaning

To refuse.

To make ware or aware; to give previous information to; to give notice to; to notify; to admonish; hence, to notify or summon by authority; as, to warn a town meeting; to warn a tenant to quit a house.

To give notice to, of approaching or probable danger or evil; to caution against anything that may prove injurious.

To ward off.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

discourage admonish prevent signal predict inform alert counsel caution threaten notify monish betoken forebode tip off
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Antonyms

blarney back move allow avoid aid
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Hypernyms

rede order say tell inform counsel

Hyponyms

alert alarm caution threaten admonish monish

Phrases with the word

warn off content warn warn of

Derivatives

warned warning

Anagrams

ANWR

Examples

If you deliberately plan on being less than you are capable of being, then I warn you that you'll be unhappy for the rest of your life. Abraham Maslow

I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused. Baruch Spinoza

When a pile of cups is tottering on the edge of the table and you warn that they will crash to the ground, in South Africa you are blamed when that happens. Desmond Tutu

If Margaret Thatcher wins on Thursday, I warn you not to be ordinary. I warn you not to be young. I warn you not to fall ill. And I warn you not to grow old. Neil Kinnock

Better warn than be warned. Walloon Proverb

Kill one to warn a hundred. Chinese Proverb

Close letter words and terms

warmware warmwater warmy warn of warn off warnable