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| Main Entry: | warning |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | cautionary |
| Synonyms: | exemplary, ominous, threatening, admonishing, admonitory, cautioning, exhortatory, monitorial, monitory, premonitory |
| Main Entry: | warning |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | notice of possible occurrence |
| Synonyms: | admonition, advice, alarm, alert, augury, caution, caveat, distress signal, example, exhortation, fore, guidance, hint, indication, information, injunction, intimation, lesson, look out*, notification, omen, portent, prediction, premonition, presage, recommendation, sign, signal, suggestion, threat, tip, token, wink, word, word to the wise, Mayday, SOS, foretoken, forewarning, handwriting on wall, heads up, tip-off, watch-it |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | warn |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | give notice of possible occurrence |
| Synonyms: | acquaint, address, admonish, advise, advocate, alert, apprise, caution, clue, counsel, cry wolf*, deprecate, direct, dissuade, enjoin, exhort, fill in, forbid, forearm, forewarn, guide, hint, inform, instruct, notify, order, post, predict, prepare, prescribe, prompt, recommend, remind, remonstrate, reprove, signal, suggest, summon, tell, threaten, tip, urge, clue in, give fair warning, give the high sign, give warning, lay it out, make aware, put on guard, tip off, wise up |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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warning, early warning, caution, caveat; notice (information) [more]; premonition, premonishment; prediction [more]; contraindication, lesson, dehortation; admonition, monition; alarm [more]., handwriting on the wall, mene mene tekel upharsin, red flag, yellow flag; fog-signal, foghorn; siren; monitor, warning voice, Cassandra, signs of the times, Mother Cary's chickens, stormy petrel, bird of ill omen, gathering clouds, clouds in the horizon, death watch., watchtower, beacon, signal post; lighthouse (indication of locality) [more]., sentinel, sentry; watch, watchman; watch and ward; watchdog, bandog, housedog; patrol, patrolman, vedette, picket, bivouac, scout, spy, spial; undercover agent, mole, plainclothesman; advanced guard, rear guard; lookout., cautiousness [more].
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in terrorem (threat) [more].
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ne reveillez pas le chat qui dort; foenum habet in cornu; caveat actor; le silence du people est la legon des rois; verbum sat sapienti; un averti en vaut deux.
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| Main Entry: | advice |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | recommendation |
| Synonyms: | admonition, advisement, advocacy, aid, bum steer*, caution, charge, consultation, counsel, directions, dissuasion, encouragement, exhortation, forewarning, guidance, help, information, injunction, input, instruction, judgment, lesson, news, opinion, persuasion, prescription, proposal, proposition, recommendation, steer, suggestion, teaching, telltale, tidings, tip, tip-off, two cents' worth, view, warning, word, word to the wise |
| Notes: | advise (verb) means 'to offer advice to or counsel'; advice (noun) is an opinion about what could or should be done about a situation or problem |
| Antonyms: | betrayal, deceit, deception, falsehood, lie, misinformation, misrepresentation |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | beep |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | sound from electronic device |
| Synonyms: | ding, signal, tone, warning, bell sound, bleep, breedle, computer sound, eep, feep |
| Main Entry: | cautionary tale |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | piece of advice |
| Synonyms: | admonition, advisory, caveat, hint, lesson, message, moral, omen, portent, red flag*, red flag, sign of things to come*, sign of things to come, warning, word to the wise, word to the wise, a few words of wisdom, caution light, deterrent example, enough said, event illustrating a hazard, forewarning, wake-up call, wake-up call |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | cue |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | signal to act |
| Synonyms: | catchword, clue, hint, idea, indication, inkling, innuendo, intimation, job, key, lead, nod, notion, prod, prompt, reminder, sign, suggestion, telltale*, warning, hot lead, in the wind, mnemonic, prompting, tip-off |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | discretion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | caution, judgment |
| Synonyms: | acumen, attention, calculation, care, concern, consideration, deliberation, diplomacy, discernment, discrimination, foresight, forethought, gumption, heed, maturity, observation, perspicacity, precaution, presence of mind, providence, prudence, responsibility, sagacity, sense, shrewdness, solicitude, tact, thoughtfulness, vigilance, wariness, warning, watchfulness, wisdom, canniness, carefulness, chariness, circumspection, considerateness, good sense, heedfulness, judiciousness |
| Antonyms: | carelessness, indiscretion, thoughtlessness |
| Main Entry: | foreboding |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | misgiving, bad omen |
| Synonyms: | anxiety, apprehension, augury, chill, dread, fear, funny feeling*, handwriting on the wall, portent, prediction, premonition, presage, presentiment, prophecy, warning, apprehensiveness, bad vibes, foreshadowing, foretoken, forewarning, prenotion, prognostic, sinking feeling, vibes, wind change |
| Antonyms: | fortune, luck, providence, good omen |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | fulmination |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | tirade, condemnation |
| Synonyms: | blast, curse, denunciation, diatribe, discharge, explosion, intimidation, invective, obloquy, outburst, philippic, warning, reprobation |
| Antonyms: | compliment, defense, flattery, praise, support |
| Main Entry: | hint |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | indication; suggestion |
| Synonyms: | advice, allusion, announcement, clue, communication, connotation, denotation, evidence, help, idea, implication, impression, inference, information, inkling, innuendo, insinuation, intimation, iota, lead, mention, notice, notion, observation, omen, pointer, print, reference, reminder, scent, sign, smattering, suspicion, symptom, taste, telltale, tinge, tip, token, trace, warning, whiff*, whisper, wink*, wrinkle*, adumbration, flea in ear, glimmering, signification, tip-off, word to wise |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | indication |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | evidence, clue |
| Synonyms: | augury, cue, earnest, explanation, expression, gesture, hint, implication, index, inkling, intimation, manifestation, mark, nod, note, notion, omen, pledge, portent, preamble, proof, reminder, show, sign, signal, significant, suggestion, symptom, telltale, token, trace, vestige, warning, wind*, wink*, adumbration, attestation, auspice, forewarning, indicia, prefiguration, prognostic, prolegomenon, signifier |
| Antonyms: | misinformation |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | indicator |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | sign |
| Synonyms: | barometer, beacon, clue, dial, gauge, guide, hint, index, mark, meter, omen, pointer, signal, symbol, warning |
| Main Entry: | intimation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | clue, hint |
| Synonyms: | allusion, announcement, breath, communication, cue, declaration, implication, indication, inkling, innuendo, insinuation, notice, notion, reminder, shade, shadow, strain, streak, suggestion, suspicion, telltale, tinge, tip, trace, warning, wind |
| Main Entry: | menace |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | danger; pest |
| Synonyms: | annoyance, caution, commination, hazard, intimidation, jeopardy, nuisance, peril, plague, risk, scare, threat, thunder, trouble, troublemaker, warning |
| Antonyms: | aid, assistance, help |
| Main Entry: | notification |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | announcement |
| Synonyms: | advertisement, advisory, alert, bulletin, communication, declaration, information, message, news, notice, proclamation, release, report, statement, warning, communique |
| Main Entry: | omen |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | sign of something to come |
| Synonyms: | augury, foreboding, harbinger, indication, portent, premonition, presage, prophecy, straw, warning, writing on the wall*, auspice, bodement, boding, foretoken, prognostic, prognostication |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | premonition |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | feeling that an event is about to occur |
| Synonyms: | apprehension, feeling, foreboding, funny feeling, hunch, idea, intuition, misgiving, omen, portent, presage, presentiment, sign, suspicion, warning, apprehensiveness, feeling in bones, forewarning, handwriting on wall, prenotion, sinking feeling, vibes, vibrations, wind change, winds, winds of change, worriment |
| Main Entry: | presage |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | prediction, indication |
| Synonyms: | apprehension, augury, forecast, harbinger, intimation, misgiving, omen, portent, premonition, presentiment, prophecy, sign, warning, apprehensiveness, auspice, bodement, boding, foretoken, forewarning, prenotion, prognostic, prognostication |
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