admonish

1. 1.

   advise or counsel in terms of someone's behavior

   “I warned him not to go too far”

   “I warn you against false assumptions”

   “She warned him to be quiet”

   Synonymswarndiscouragemonish

   Broaderrede
2. 2.

   warn strongly; put on guard

   Synonymscautionmonish

   Broaderwarn
3. 3.

   take to task

   “He admonished the child for his bad behavior”

   Synonymsreprovereproof

   Broaderknock

Other forms of admonish

past tense

admonished·

present participle

admonishing·

third person

admonishes·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about admonish

What does admonish mean?

admonish means "advise or counsel in terms of someone's behavior". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in admonish?

admonish has 3 syllables: ad-mo-nish. The stress falls on "mo". In IPA it is /ædˈmɑnɪʃ/.

What is another word for admonish?

Close synonyms include warn, discourage, monish, caution, monish. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is admonish a common word?

admonish is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.