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View synonyms for admonitory

admonitory

[ ad-mon-i-tawr-ee, -tohr-ee ]

adjective

  1. tending or serving to admonish; warning:

    an admonitory gesture.



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Other Words From

  • ad·moni·tori·ly adverb
  • unad·moni·tory adjective
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Word History and Origins

Origin of admonitory1

From the Medieval Latin word admonitōrius, dating back to 1585–95. See ad-, monitory
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Example Sentences

And while the formal rules on travel have relaxed, the admonitory official language is unchanged.

The aunt with a name becomes “No Name Woman”; she becomes a story, one of the admonitory “talk-stories” that Kingston’s mother will tell years later to her California-born daughter.

A piratical pastor in a boxcar and two rich, tuxedoed drunks on the same train are like admonitory bookends on the subjects of class and self-determination.

But the tone of “State Funeral” is more meditative than admonitory.

The traffic signals in several of his pictures glow an admonitory red or orange.

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