Usually means: Warning to prevent harm, danger.
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We found 24 dictionaries that define the word cautionary:

General (22 matching dictionaries)
  1. cautionary: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. cautionary: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. cautionary: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. cautionary: Collins English Dictionary
  5. cautionary: Vocabulary.com
  6. Cautionary, cautionary: Wordnik
  7. cautionary: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. cautionary: Wiktionary
  9. cautionary: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. cautionary: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. cautionary: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Cautionary, cautionary: Dictionary.com
  13. Cautionary: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. cautionary: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. cautionary: Rhymezone
  16. Cautionary: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. cautionary: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. cautionary: Free Dictionary
  19. cautionary: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. cautionary: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. cautionary: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. cautionary: Encyclopedia

(Note: See caution as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Serving to caution or warn; admonitory
adjective:  Serving to ward off; preventive
adjective:  (obsolete) Held as security or hostage

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