Usually means: Warning or reprimanding someone firmly.
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General (16 matching dictionaries)
  1. admonishing: Merriam-Webster
  2. admonishing: Collins English Dictionary
  3. admonishing: Vocabulary.com
  4. Admonishing, admonishing: Wordnik
  5. admonishing: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. admonishing: Wiktionary
  7. Admonishing, admonishing: Dictionary.com
  8. admonishing: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Admonishing: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. admonishing: Rhymezone
  11. Admonishing: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. admonishing: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  13. admonishing: FreeDictionary.org
  14. admonishing: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. admonishing: TheFreeDictionary.com
  16. admonishing: Merriam-Webster

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. admonishing: Legal dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (admonishing)

▸ noun:  admonishment
▸ adjective:  Giving admonishment.

Similar:
admonitory, reproving, reproachful, unfavourable, unfavorable, admonition, monitory, condemning, advisory, remembrance, more...

Opposite:
praising, commending, applauding

Types:
scolding, reprimand, reproof, chiding, rebuke, admonition, more...

Adjectives:
french, motionless, ball, gentle, stern, much

Colors:
    burnt sienna,     brick red,     maroon,     crimson,     rust, more...



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Similar:
admonitory, reproving, reproachful, unfavourable, unfavorable, admonition, monitory, condemning, advisory, remembrance, more...

Opposite:
praising, commending, applauding

Types:
scolding, reprimand, reproof, chiding, rebuke, admonition, more...

Adjectives:
french, motionless, ball, gentle, stern, much

Colors:
    burnt sienna,     brick red,     maroon,     crimson,     rust, more...



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