admonish
Meaning of admonish
- warn or reprimand someone firmly.
she admonished me for appearing at breakfast unshaven
Middle English amonest ‘urge, exhort’, from Old French amonester, based on Latin admonere ‘urge by warning’. Later, the final -t of amonest was taken to indicate the past tense, and the present tense changed on the pattern of verbs such as abolish ; the prefix became ad- in the 16th century by association with the Latin form.
Information about admonish
- It is a verb.
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Hyphenation of admonish
ad-mon-ish
- It consists of 3 syllables and 8 chars.
- admonish is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
admonish synonyms
Meaning warn:
Meaning caution:
Meaning reprove:
Meaning address a reprimand to:
Meaning express sharp disapproval or criticism of (someone) because of their behaviour or actions:
Meaning remonstrate with or rebuke (someone) angrily:
Meaning find fault with (someone); scold:
Meaning rebuke or reprimand severely:
Meaning scold or rebuke:
Meaning express severe disapproval of (someone or something), especially in a formal statement:
Meaning reprimand (someone) severely:
Meaning criticize (someone or something) harshly:
Meaning scold or criticize (someone) angrily:
Meaning accuse someone of:
Meaning talk seriously or reprovingly to (someone):
Meaning indicate the faults of (someone or something) in a disapproving way:
Meaning reprimand severely:
Meaning criticize or reprimand severely:
Meaning make (something) neat or of the required size or form by cutting away irregular or unwanted parts:
Meaning assign a standard or value to (something) according to a particular scale:
Meaning reprimand:
Meaning rebuke severely; scold:
admonish antonyms
Meaning express warm approval or admiration of:
Translation of admonish
- Spanish: amonestar, sermonear, increpar
- Italian: riprendere, ammonire, arringare, avvertire, rimproverare
- French: haranguer, admonester, admonéter, sermoner, réprimander
- German: ermahnen
Anagrams of admonish
Words that rhyme with admonish
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