Usually means: Urging or advising emphatically; exhortative.
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  1. adhortatory: Wordnik
  2. adhortatory: Wiktionary
  3. Adhortatory: Dictionary.com
  4. adhortatory: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  5. Adhortatory: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  6. adhortatory: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  7. adhortatory: FreeDictionary.org
  8. Adhortatory: TheFreeDictionary.com
  9. Adhortatory: Online Plain Text English Dictionary

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▸ adjective:  (obsolete) Containing counsel or warning; advisory.

Similar:
aviseful, adjurant, commonitory, admonitorial, adjutory, deprecative, ambagitory, obsecratory, adversarious, dire, more...

Opposite:
dissuasive, discouraging, negative

Types:
persuasive, encouraging, motivating, inspiring, uplifting, more...

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Similar:
aviseful, adjurant, commonitory, admonitorial, adjutory, deprecative, ambagitory, obsecratory, adversarious, dire, more...

Opposite:
dissuasive, discouraging, negative

Types:
persuasive, encouraging, motivating, inspiring, uplifting, more...



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