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.

Synonyms & Similar Words

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

Examples of exhortation in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

For Mailer, a passage like that is really a kind of gauntlet, an exhortation to all of us to turn away from the machine and plug back into something elemental. —Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 16 July 2024

His exhortation to designate the flatly fundamentally functional and decidedly desultory nondescript Liberty Loan Building as a National Historic Landmark is akin to memorializing a streetside waste receptacle, by mere virtue of the longevity of each. —Washington Post, 21 June 2024

Gottfried’s messages are generally cheerful, plucky, full of exhortations to remain strong. —John Ganz, Harper's Magazine, 22 May 2024

Even as Russia has become a pariah, Beijing has not paused bilateral exchanges and joint military exercises or dialed down its public exhortations on deepening strategic coordination with its friend to the north. —Patricia M. Kim, Foreign Affairs, 28 Feb. 2023