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

Examples Sentences

Recent Examples of admonition

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

On that score, the famous admonition conveyed in President Dwight Eisenhower’s farewell address in January 1961 has lost none of its relevance. —Andrew J. Bacevich, Foreign Affairs, 28 Feb. 2023

Driving the news: The admonition came in an update to House Democrats sent Friday afternoon by Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee Executive Director Julie Merz, a copy of which was obtained by Axios. —Andrew Solender, Axios, 25 Oct. 2024