warning
Other forms: warnings; warningly
A warning is a caution against something dangerous. When there's a shark warning at the beach, the lifeguards will order everyone out of the water.
When you receive a warning, you get an official advance notice of some impending problem. A crow might caw loudly as a warning when it sees a cat, and a traffic cop might give a first-time speeder a warning instead of an expensive ticket. You can also use warning as an adjective: "The warning light came on in her car as it started to overheat."
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a message informing of dangertypes:wake-up calla warning to take action concerning something that was overlooked or neglectedalarmismneedless warningsfalse alarma warning that is given about something that fails to occurheads-upa warning messagestrategic warning(military) a warning prior to the start of a threatening acttactical warning(military) a warning after the initiation of a hostile actthreata warning that something unpleasant is imminentwarning of attacka warning to national policy makers that an enemy intends to launch an attack in the near futurewarning of wara warning to national policy makers that an enemy intends war or is preparing for war and is on a course that increases the risk of wartype of:
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cautionary advice about something imminent (especially imminent danger or other unpleasantness)“the warning was to beware of surprises”synonyms: admonition, monition, word of advicetypes:type of:advicea proposal for an appropriate course of action
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notification of something, usually in advance
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serving to warnsynonyms: admonitory, cautionary, exemplary, monitorydissuasivedeterring from action
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