admonition

Other forms of admonition

plural

admonitions·

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 admonition

What does admonition mean?

admonition means "cautionary advice about something imminent (especially imminent danger or other unpleasantness)". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in admonition?

admonition has 4 syllables: ad-mo-nit-ion. The stress falls on "nit". In IPA it is /ˌædməˈnɪʃən/.

What is another word for admonition?

Close synonyms include monition, warning, word of advice, admonishment, monition. 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 admonition a common word?

admonition is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with admonition?

10 words rhyme with admonition. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.