| 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 |
| Main Entry: | cautionary tale |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | piece of advice |
Synonyms: |
a few words of wisdom, admonition, advisory, caution light, caveat, deterrent example, enough said, event illustrating a hazard, forewarning, hint, lesson, message, moral, omen, portent, red flag, red flag, sign of things to come, sign of things to come, wake-up call, wake-up call, warning, word to the wise, word to the wise |
| Main Entry: | counsel |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | guidance |
Synonyms: |
admonition, advice, advisement, caution, consideration, consultation, deliberation, direction, forethought, information, instruction, kibitz, recommendation, steer, suggestion, tip, tip-off, two cents' worth, warning, word to the wise |
| Main Entry: | hint |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | indication; suggestion |
Synonyms: |
adumbration, advice, allusion, announcement, clue, communication, connotation, denotation, evidence, flea in ear, glimmering, help, idea, implication, impression, inference, information, inkling, innuendo, insinuation, intimation, iota, lead, mention, notice, notion, observation, omen, pointer, print, reference, reminder, scent, sign, signification, smattering, suspicion, symptom, taste, telltale, tinge, tip, tip-off, token, trace, warning, whiff, whisper, wink, word to wise, wrinkle |
| Main Entry: | tip/tipoff |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | inside information |
Synonyms: |
bang*, bug*, buzz*, clue, cue, dope*, forecast, hint, in, information, inkling, inside wire, knowledge, news, point, pointer, prediction, prompt, secret information, steer*, suggestion, two cents' worth, warning, whisper, word, word of advice, word to the wise |
Antonyms: |
silence |
| Main Entry: | warning |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | notice of possible occurrence |
Synonyms: |
Mayday, SOS, admonition, advice, alarm, alert, augury, caution, caveat, distress signal, example, exhortation, fore, foretoken, forewarning, guidance, handwriting on wall, heads up, hint, indication, information, injunction, intimation, lesson, look out, notification, omen, portent, prediction, premonition, presage, recommendation, sign, signal, suggestion, threat, tip, tip-off, token, watch-it, wink, word, word to the wise |
| Main Entry: | word to the wise |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | advice to another |
Synonyms: |
advice, good word, recommendation, suggestion, word in the ear |
| Main Entry: | tip-off |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | tip |
Synonyms: |
bang*, bug*, buzz*, clue, cue, dope*, forecast, hint, in*, information, inkling, inside wire, knowledge, news, point, pointer, prediction, prompt, secret information, steer*, suggestion, two cents' worth, warning, whisper, word of advice, word to the wise, word* |
| Main Entry: | advice |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
Related
Adjectives: |
admonitory, consiliary, dehortatory, hortative, hortatory, officious, paramuthetic, parenetic, proceleusmatic, recommendatory, suggestible
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| Concept: | Warning. |
| Category: | 2. Subservience to Ends; Contingent Subservience |
Synonyms: |
-nouns
warning, early warning, caution, caveat; notice (information); premonition, premonishment; prediction; contraindication, lesson, dehortation; admonition, monition; alarm., 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)., 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.
-verbs
warn, caution; forewarn, prewarn; admonish, premonish; give notice, give warning, dehort; menace (threaten); put on one's guard; sound the alarm; croak., beware, ware; take warning, take heed at one's peril; keep watch and ward (care).
-adjectives
-adverbs
-phrases
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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