Synonyms for warn
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1. warn

   To censure is to pronounce an adverse judgment that may or may not be expressed to the person censured; to reprove is to censure authoritatively, openly, and directly to the face of the person reproved; to rebuke is to reprove with sharpness, and often with abruptness, usually in the midst of some action or course of action deemed censurable; to reprimand is to reprove officially; to blame is a familiar word signifying to pass censure upon, make answerable, as for a fault; blame and censure apply either to persons or acts; reprove and rebuke are applied chiefly, and reprimand exclusively to persons. To reproach is to censure openly and vehemently, and with intense personal feeling as of grief or anger; as, to reproach one for ingratitude; reproach knows no distinction of rank or character; a subject may reproach a king or a criminal judge. To expostulate or remonstrate with is to mingle reasoning and appeal with censure in the hope of winning one from his evil way, expostulate being the gentler, remonstrate the severer word. Admonish is the mildest of reproving words, and may even be used of giving a caution or warning where no wrong is implied, or of simply reminding of duty which might be forgotten. Censure, rebuke, and reprove apply to wrong that has been done; warn and admonish refer to anticipated error or fault. When one is admonished because of wrong already done, the view is still future, that he may not repeat or continue in the wrong. Compare CONDEMN; REPROOF.

   Synonyms:
   admonish, blame, censure, chasten, check, chide, condemn, expostulate with, find fault with, rebuke, remonstrate with, reprehend, reprimand, reproach, reprove, take to task, upbraid

   Antonyms:
   abet, applaud, approve, cheer, countenance, encourage, impel, incite, instigate, urge on

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1. warn

   Synonyms:
   premonish, monish, admonish, notify, dissuade, deter, alarm

   Antonyms:
   encourage, incite, instigate, induce

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1. warnverb

   notify of danger, potential harm, or risk

   "The director warned him that he might be fired"; "The doctor warned me about the dangers of smoking"

   Synonyms:
   monish, admonish, discourage

2. warn, discourage, admonish, monishverb

   admonish 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"

   Synonyms:
   reprove, monish, admonish, deter, caution, discourage

3. warnverb

   ask to go away

   "The old man warned the children off his property"

   Synonyms:
   monish, admonish, discourage

4. warnverb

   notify, usually in advance

   "I warned you that I would ask some difficult questions"

   Synonyms:
   monish, admonish, discourage

Matched Categories

1. • Inform
   • Tell

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1. warnverb

   Synonyms:
   caution (against danger), premonish, forewarn, exhort to take heed

2. warnverb

   Synonyms:
   admonish (with respect to some duty), advise

3. warnverb

   Synonyms:
   inform, notify, apprise, disclose to, mention to, communicate to, make aware, make acquainted, give notice to

4. warnverb

   Synonyms:
   summon, bid, call

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1. warnverb

   Synonyms:
   admonish, caution, notify, premonish, apprise, advise, forewarn, signal

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1. List of paraphrases for "warn":

   warns, alert, caution, prevent, warning, notify, forewarn, warnings, advise

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1. François Fénelon:

   The past but lives in written words: a thousand ages were blank if books had not evoked their ghosts, and kept the pale unbodied shades to warn us from fleshless lips.

2. Whitney Moore Young:

   Support the strong, give courage to the timid, remind the indifferent, and warn the opposed.

3. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn:

   Literature that is not the breath of contemporary society, that dares not transmit the pains and fears of that society, that does not warn in time against threatening moral and social dangers -- such literature does not deserve the name of literature; it is only a fa?ade. Such literature loses the confidence of its own people, and its published works are used as wastepaper instead of being read.

4. Morrie Amitay:

   He didn't come here to insult the president, he came here to warn of an extreme danger that needs to be articulated in whatever form, whatever way possible.

5. Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis:

   I would warn anyone who is considering strategically amputating Greece from Europe because this is very dangerous, who will be next after us? Portugal? What will happen when Italy discovers it is impossible to remain inside the straitjacket of austerity?