Thesaurus: admonition

Related headwords

Definitions

1. n. Gentle or friendly reproof; counseling against a fault or error; expression of authoritative advice; friendly caution or warning.
2. n. cautionary advice about something imminent (especially imminent danger or other unpleasantness)
3. n. a firm rebuke
4. Gentle or friendly reproof; counseling against a fault or error; expression of authoritative advice; friendly caution or warning. Syn. -- Admonition, Reprehension, Reproof. Admonition is prospective, and relates to moral delinquencies; its object is to prevent further transgression. Reprehension and reproof are retrospective, the former being milder than the latter. A person of any age or station may be liable to reprehension in case of wrong conduct; but reproof is the act of a superior. It is authoritative fault-finding or censure addressed to children or to inferiors.
5. Gentle or friendly reproof; counseling against a fault orerror; expression of authoritative advice; friendly caution orwarning.
6. n:100 n. cautionary advice about something imminent (especially imminent danger or other unpleasantness) n. a firm rebuke