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Syllable division derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
monish is a verb meaning "warn strongly; put on guard". It carries 2 recorded senses.
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”
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for monish come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.