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cautioning

adjective

Synonyms and Antonyms of cautioning

serving as or offering a warning

a cautioning story about how envy can destroy a friendship

Synonyms of cautioning

admonishing, admonitory, cautionary, exemplary, monitory, premonitory, warning

Words Related to cautioning

didactic, moralistic, moralizing

advisory, counseling (or counselling)

punishing, punitive

cautioning

verb , present participle of caution

Synonyms and Antonyms of cautioning

to give notice to beforehand especially of danger or risk

the doctor cautioned that I should still be careful using my sprained wrist for the next several days

Synonyms of cautioning

advising, alerting, forewarning, waking, warning

Words Related to cautioning

auguring, forecasting, foretelling, harbingering, predicting, presaging, prognosticating, prophesying

apprising, informing, notifying, tipping (off)

boding, foreboding (also forboding), foreshadowing, foretokening, portending

Near Antonyms of cautioning

imperiling (or imperilling), risking

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