ADMONISH meaning: Warn or reprimand someone firmly

We found 36 dictionaries that define the word admonish:

General (32 matching dictionaries)

admonish: Merriam-Webster.com
admonish: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
admonish: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
admonish: Collins English Dictionary
admonish: Vocabulary.com
Admonish, admonish: Wordnik
admonish: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
admonish: Wiktionary
admonish: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
admonish: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
admonish: Infoplease Dictionary
Admonish, admonish: Dictionary.com
admonish: Online Etymology Dictionary
admonish: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
Admonish (band), Admonish: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
Admonish: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
admonish: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
admonish: Rhymezone
admonish: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
admonish: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
admonish: Free Dictionary
admonish: Mnemonic Dictionary
admonish: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
admonish: Dictionary/thesaurus

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admonish: Legal dictionary

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admonish: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)

admonish: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)

Admonish: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (

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▸ verb:  (transitive) To inform or notify of a fault; to rebuke in a serious tone; to tell off.
▸ verb:  (transitive, with of or against) To advise against wrongdoing; to caution; to warn against danger or an offense.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To instruct or direct.

Similar:

warn, reprove, caution, discourage, tell off, reprimand, chide, animadvert, rebuke, scold, more...

Opposite:

encourage

Types:

scold, rebuke, chide, reprimand, reprove, censure, chastise, more...

Phrases:

opposite of admonish, more...

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