Word Meanings - FOREWARN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To warn beforehand; to give previous warning, admonition, information, or notice to; to caution in advance. We were forewarned of your coming. Shak.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of FOREWARN)

• Admonish
• Remind
• forewarn
• advise
• warn
• dissuade
• caution
• counsel
• reprove
• censure
• rebuke
• Foretell
• Predict
• preindicate
• prognosticate
• forebode
• prophesy
• presage
• augur
• foreshow
• betoken
• portend

Related words: (words related to FOREWARN)

• ADMONISHER
  One who admonishes.
• CAUTIONARY BLOCK
  A block in which two or more trains are permitted to travel, under restrictions imposed by a caution card or the like.
• BETOKEN
  1. To signify by some visible object; to show by signs or tokens. A dewy cloud, and in the cloud a bow . . . Betokening peace from God, and covenant new. Milton. 2. To foreshow by present signs; to indicate something future by that which is seen
• REMIND
  To put in mind of something; to bring to the remembrance of; to bring to the notice or consideration of . When age itself, which will not be defied, shall begin to arrest, seize, and remind us of our mortality. South.
• REMINDER
  One who, or that which, reminds; that which serves to awaken remembrance.
• CENSURER
  One who censures. Sha.
• AUGUR
  An official diviner who foretold events by the singing, chattering, flight, and feeding of birds, or by signs or omens derived from celestial phenomena, certain appearances of quadrupeds, or unusual occurrences. 2. One who foretells events by omens;
• FOREWARN
  To warn beforehand; to give previous warning, admonition, information, or notice to; to caution in advance. We were forewarned of your coming. Shak.
• ADVISER
  One who advises.
• PORTEND
  to impend, from an old preposition used in comp. + tendere to 1. To indicate as in future; to foreshow; to foretoken; to bode; -- now used esp. of unpropitious signs. Bacon. Many signs portended a dark and stormy day. Macaulay. 2. To stretch
• AUGURER
  An augur. Shak.
• COUNSEL
  fr. the root of consulere to consult, of uncertain origin. Cf. 1. Interchange of opinions; mutual advising; consultation. All the chief priest and elders of the people took counsel against Jesus, to put him to death. Matt. xxvii. 1. 2. Examination
• CAUTION
  scavere) to be on one's guard, to take care to be on the 1. A careful attention to the probable effects of an act, in order that failure or harm may be avoided; prudence in regard to danger; provident care; wariness. 2. Security; guaranty; bail.
• AUGURIAL
  Relating to augurs or to augury. Sir T. Browne.
• COUNSELOR
  conseiler, F. conseiller, fr. L. consiliarius, fr. consilium 1. One who counsels; an adviser. Can he that speaks with the tongue of an enemy be a good counselor, or no Shak. 2. A member of council; one appointed to advise a sovereign
• PRESAGE
  1. Something which foreshows or portends a future event; a prognostic; an omen; an augury. "Joy and shout -- presage of victory." Milton. 2. Power to look the future, or the exercise of that power; foreknowledge; presentiment. If there be aught
• PREDICTIONAL
  Prophetic; prognostic.
• PRESAGEMENT
  1. The act or art of presaging; a foreboding. Sir T. Browne. 2. That which is presaged, or foretold. "Ominous presagement before his end. " Sir H. Wotton.
• PREDICTOR
  One who predicts; a foreteller.
• FORETELLER
  One who predicts. Boyle.
• MISADVISE
  To give bad counsel to.
• INAUGURATE
  Invested with office; inaugurated. Drayton. (more info) omens from the flight of birds (before entering upon any important undertaking); hence, to consecrate, inaugurate, or install, with such
• PRECAUTION
  praecautum, to guard against beforehand; prae before + cavere be on 1. Previous caution or care; caution previously employed to prevent mischief or secure good; as, his life was saved by precaution. They treasured up their supposed discoveries
• INCAUTION
  Want of caution. Pope.