Synonyms of admonition

admonition

noun

ˌad-mə-ˈni-shən 

1

as in advice

an opinion suggesting a wise or proper course of action

a heartfelt admonition to the graduates to make the most of their lives

Synonyms & Similar Words

• advice
• guidance
• admonishment
• recommendation
• information
• counsel
• suggestion
• input
• feedback
• advisement
• adjuration
• instruction
• assistance
• tip
• answer
• lesson
• data
• teaching
• warning
• urging
• solution
• consideration
• exhortation
• judgement
• thought
• observation
• remonstrance
• coaching
• pointer
• sermon
• verdict
• alert
• lecture
• briefing
• expostulation
• prompting
• preaching
• alarum
• forewarning
• cautioning
• remonstration
• hint
• moralizing
• speech
• judgment
• interference
• mentoring
• alarm
• priming
• direction
• tutoring
• caution
• meddling
• kibbitzing
• pontificating
• kibitzing

2

as in warning

the act or an instance of telling beforehand of danger or risk

ignored the ranger's admonitions and took the road over the mountain, only to be stranded by the blizzard

Synonyms & Similar Words

• warning
• admonishment
• advice
• recommendation
• caution
• suggestion
• forewarning
• alert
• heads-up
• alarum
• prediction
• notice
• alarm
• informing
• prophecy
• predicting
• prophesy
• guidance
• announcement
• notification
• declaration
• forecasting
• premonition
• tip
• prophesying
• counsel
• augury
• foretelling
• presaging
• prognosticating
• auguring
• notifying
• apprising
• tip-off

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of admonition

But Eric Davis, only 10 years old then, forgot that admonition the day state child services came to take him away. —Rosalind Bowling, The Tennessean, 27 Nov. 2024

In the controversy would come, and, as might a worker on a production line, the judge could simply press Ctrl + Fn + 1 to issue forth yet another admonition that, however passionate ... —Charles C. W. Cooke, National Review, 7 Oct. 2024

Everyone knows that this admonition should be addressed to former President Donald Trump. —Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 1 Nov. 2024

And yet, the four years since the six-feet-apart admonitions emerged have left me guardedly (perhaps naïvely) optimistic. —Justin Davidson, Curbed, 21 Aug. 2024