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Cautionary [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. Containing caution, or warning to avoid danger; as cautionary advice.

2. Given as a pledge or in security; as a cautionary town.

Cautionary [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. Conveying a caution, or warning to avoid danger; as, cautionary signals.

2. Given as a pledge or as security.

Warning Roget’s Thesaurus §668

N. warning, early warning, caution, caveat, notice, premonition, premonishment, prediction, contraindication, lesson, dehortation, admonition, monition, alarm, handwriting on the wall, mene mene tekel upharsin, red flag, yellow flag, fog-signal, foghorn, siren, monitor, warning voice, cassandra, signs of the times, mother cary's chickens, stormy petrel, bird of ill omen, gathering clouds, clouds in the horizon, death watch, watchtower, beacon, signal post, lighthouse, sentinel, sentry, watch, watchman, watch and ward, watchdog, bandog, housedog, patrol, patrolman, vedette, picket, bivouac, scout, spy, spial|, undercover agent, mole, plainclothesman, advanced guard, rear guard, lookout, cautiousness, monitor, guard camera, radar, awacs, spy satellite, spy-in-the-sky, u2 plane, spy plane

V. warn, caution, forewarn, prewarn, admonish, premonish, give notice, give warning, dehort, menace, put on one's guard, sound the alarm, croak, beware, ware, take warning, take heed at one's peril, keep watch and ward

Adj. warning, premonitory, monitory, cautionary, admonitory, admonitive, sematic, warned, forewarned, on one's guard, (cautious) 864

Adv. in terrorem

Int. beware, ware, take care, look out, fore, [golf], mind what you are about, take care what you are about, mind, phr, ne reveillez pas le chat qui dort, foenum habet in cornu, caveat actor, le silence du people est la legon des rois, verbum sat sapienti, un averti en vaut deux