Synonyms of exhortation

exhortation

noun

as in recommendation

a statement that strongly urges someone to do or avoid doing something

Despite her parents' exhortations to spend responsibly, she blew most of her savings on an expensive sports car.

Related Words

• recommendation
• suggestion
• warning
• speech
• instruction
• sermon
• lesson
• lecture
• cautioning
• advice
• urging
• caution
• data
• information
• direction
• feedback
• solution
• tip
• consideration
• advisement
• teaching
• pointer
• answer
• guidance
• thought
• hint
• assistance
• expostulation
• observation
• remonstrance
• preaching
• verdict
• prompting
• remonstration
• admonition
• alert
• briefing
• forewarning
• judgment
• coaching
• alarm
• mentoring
• priming
• interference
• tutoring
• admonishment
• moralizing
• counsel
• input
• meddling
• adjuration
• pontificating
• kibitzing

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of exhortation

Lundberg writes that the poem is both an explication of the promise of America and an exhortation to persevere on behalf of the country. — The Atlantic, 8 June 2026

Advertisement While Pulisic is no recluse—he’ll go to an occasional nice dinner with friends—exhortations to step out more go mostly unheeded. — Sean Gregory, Time, 7 May 2026

Then the speakers’ exhortations to excellence would build in emotional intensity until women began to weep and the meeting erupted in spontaneous pledges to set new personal bests. — Literary Hub, 28 Apr. 2026

Passages range from the creation of the world to bloody battles and apocalyptic destruction, from exhortations to love of God, neighbor and the needy to passages telling of Jesus’ life, death and resurrection. — Peter Smith, Los Angeles Times, 21 Apr. 2026