Definitions

admonish

[ad-mon-ish] / ædˈmɒn ɪʃ /

VERB

warn, strongly criticize

Synonyms

STRONGEST

advise berate censure chide enjoin exhort rebuke reprimand scold upbraid warn

STRONG

check counsel ding forewarn glue growl hoist notice rap reprove

WEAK

call down call on the carpet come down hard on draw the line give a going over give a piece of one's mind jack up rap on knuckles sit on slap on wrist speak to talk to tell a thing or two tell off

Antonyms

STRONGEST

allow compliment flatter laud permit praise

WEAK

applaud approve commend extol

Example Sentences

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Its rings are labeled: Investigate further, Admonish, Cite, and the bull's-eye is Complaint withdrawn.

From Time Magazine Archive

Sir 19:15 Admonish a friend: for many times it is a slander, and believe not every tale.

From Deuterocanonical Books of the Bible Apocrypha by Anonymous

Admonish and exhort as your charity requires; if they mind not, it does not concern you.

From Flowers from a Persian Garden and Other Papers by Clouston, William Alexander

Admonish, ad-mon′ish, v.t. to warn: to reprove mildly.—n.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various

Admonish your young Heinrich to fear God, and to that end to pray and read, and make him read to you in your room on the forenoon of Sunday from the Molleri postilla.

From Pictures of German Life in the XVth XVIth and XVIIth Centuries, Vol. II. by Freytag, Gustav

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