Synonyms of advising

advising

verb

present participle of advise

1

as in warning

to give advice to

a popular guidance counselor who has been advising students about their college plans for two decades

Synonyms & Similar Words

• warning
• teaching
• admonishing
• counselling
• informing
• telling
• convincing
• encouraging
• counseling
• coaching
• urging
• guiding
• cautioning
• alerting
• persuading
• adjuring
• instructing
• briefing
• mentoring
• shepherding
• forewarning
• recommending
• leading
• exhorting
• begging
• imploring
• tutoring
• directing
• suggesting
• steering
• familiarizing
• showing
• inducing
• talking (into)
• filling in
• apprising
• proposing
• acquainting
• piloting
• prevailing (upon)
• cluing (in)
• clueing (in)
• wising (up)

2

as in suggesting

to put (something) forward as one's choice for a wise or proper course of action

she advised calling ahead for a reservation at the new restaurant

Synonyms & Similar Words

• suggesting
• recommending
• counseling
• counselling
• proposing
• advocating
• urging
• supporting
• backing
• exhorting
• favoring
• offering
• championing
• submitting
• espousing
• advancing

3

as in consulting

to exchange viewpoints or seek advice for the purpose of finding a solution to a problem

the doctor advised with his partner before recommending the patient's treatment

Synonyms & Similar Words

• consulting
• discussing
• conferring
• talking
• counselling
• treating
• counseling
• arguing
• parleying
• debating
• confabulating
• deliberating
• confabbing
• recommending
• guiding
• ventilating
• suggesting
• talking over
• disputing
• coaching
• rehashing
• tutoring
• hashing (over)
• batting (around)
• bandying
• mooting
• chewing over
• referring (to)
• palavering
• directing
• kicking around

4

as in informing

to give information to

advised her as to the best way to get to the art museum by public transportation

Synonyms & Similar Words

• informing
• telling
• instructing
• briefing
• teaching
• educating
• apprising
• notifying
• acquainting
• familiarizing
• alerting
• enlightening
• clearing
• filling in
• catching up
• versing
• lecturing
• letting someone know
• assuring
• hipping
• reassuring
• convincing
• keeping (someone) posted
• advertising
• clueing (in)
• cluing (in)
• wising (up)
• announcing (to)
• disclosing (to)
• certifying
• tutoring
• warranting
• schooling
• disabusing
• disillusioning
• disenchanting
• undeceiving

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• misleading
• misinforming

5

as in alerting

to give notice to beforehand especially of danger or risk

advised us not to invest our money in what looked like a pyramid scheme

Synonyms & Similar Words

• warning
• alerting
• cautioning
• informing
• forewarning
• waking
• predicting
• notifying
• admonishing
• forecasting
• apprising
• prophesying
• foretelling
• presaging
• prognosticating
• tipping (off)
• auguring
• harbingering
• foreshadowing
• portending
• foreboding
• boding
• forboding
• foretokening

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• risking
• imperiling
• imperilling