warning

The word “warning” has 2 syllables: warn-ing

It's pronounced as /ˈwɔːrnɪŋ/


What is synonym and antonym for warning?

In the thesaurus, “warning” has 99 synonyms and 5 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for warning along with examples of usage in sentences.


Synonyms for warning

  • Mayday
  • SOS
  • admonishing
  • admonishment
  • admonition
  • admonitory
  • advice
  • advising
  • advisory
  • alarm
  • alarum
  • alert
  • alerting
  • announcement
  • apprising
  • auguring
  • augury
  • boding
  • buoy
  • caution
  • cautionary
  • cautioning
  • caveat
  • counsel
  • counseling
  • counselling
  • declaration
  • didactic
  • distress signal
  • example
  • exemplary
  • exhortation
  • exhortatory
  • forboding
  • fore
  • foreboding
  • forecasting
  • foreshadowing
  • foretaste
  • foretelling
  • foretoken
  • foretokening
  • forewarning
  • guidance
  • handwriting on the wall
  • harbingering
  • heads up
  • heads-up
  • hint
  • indication
  • indicator
  • information
  • informing
  • injunction
  • intimation
  • knell
  • lesson
  • look out
  • monitorial
  • monitory
  • moralistic
  • moralizing
  • notice
  • notification
  • notifying
  • omen
  • ominous
  • portending
  • portent
  • predicting
  • prediction
  • premonition
  • premonitory
  • presage
  • presaging
  • prognosticating
  • prophecy
  • prophesy
  • prophesying
  • punishing
  • punitive
  • recommendation
  • red flag
  • red light
  • sign
  • signal
  • suggestion
  • threat
  • threatening
  • tip
  • tip-off
  • tocsin
  • token
  • wake-up call
  • waking
  • watch-it
  • wink
  • word
  • word to the wise

Antonyms for warning

  • all clear
  • imperiling
  • imperilling
  • misinformation
  • risking

Meanings of warning

  • verb
    1. To make (someone) aware of (something impending); especially:.
    2. To caution or admonish (someone) against unwise or unacceptable behaviour.
    3. (chiefly with "off", "away", and similar words) To advise or order to go or stay away.
    4. To give warning.
  • noun
    1. The action of the verb warn; an instance of warning someone.
    2. Something spoken or written that is intended to warn.
  • interjection
    1. Used to warn of danger in signs and notices.

Example Sentences

  • The warning signs on the road indicated a sharp turn ahead.
  • The loud alarm served as a warning to evacuate the building.
  • He gave a clear warning about the dangers of ignoring safety rules.
  • I received a warning from the teacher for being late to class.
  • The weather forecast issued a warning about an approaching hurricane.

On this page you'll find 104 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to warning, such as: Mayday, SOS, admonishing, admonishment, admonition, admonitory, advice.

Make sure to choose synonyms and antonyms that are appropriate for the context of the sentence.

Related Words

ban

  • a thou-shalt-not
  • anathema
  • banish
  • bar
  • blackball
  • blacklist
  • block
  • boycott
  • bridle
  • caveat
  • cease
  • censorship
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  • check
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  • commandment
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  • constraint
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  • damnation
  • debar
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  • decree
  • denial
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  • deport
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  • edict
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  • enjoin
  • except
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  • execration
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  • forbid
  • freeze out
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  • hoodoo
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  • illegalize
  • impede
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  • inhibit
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  • injunction
  • interdict
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  • jinx
  • limitation
  • malediction
  • malison
  • mandate
  • mojo
  • negation
  • no-no
  • objection
  • obstruct
  • obviate
  • off-limits
  • ostracize
  • oust
  • out of bounds
  • outlaw
  • pass by
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  • pox
  • preclude
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  • protest
  • put down
  • quash
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  • refusal
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  • repress
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  • restrain
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  • rule out
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  • spell
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  • suppress
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  • taboo
  • tabu
  • throw out
  • veto
  • voodoo
  • warning
  • whammy
  • winze

bans

  • anathemas
  • banishes
  • bars
  • blackballs
  • blacklists
  • blocks
  • bridles
  • caveats
  • ceases
  • censures
  • checks
  • checks off
  • closes out
  • commandments
  • condemnations
  • constraints
  • crushes
  • curbs
  • curses
  • damnations
  • debars
  • decrees
  • denials
  • denunciations
  • deports
  • deprives
  • deterrents
  • deters
  • dictates
  • disallowances
  • disallows
  • discontinues
  • discouragements
  • discourages
  • disregards
  • dissuades
  • edicts
  • eliminates
  • embargoes
  • enjoins
  • excepts
  • excludes
  • excommunicates
  • excommunications
  • execrations
  • exiles
  • expels
  • forbids
  • freezes out
  • halts
  • hexes
  • hinders
  • hoodoos
  • impedes
  • imprecations
  • inhibitions
  • inhibits
  • injunctions
  • interdictions
  • interdicts
  • jinxes
  • limitations
  • maledictions
  • malisons
  • mandates
  • mojos
  • negations
  • no-nos
  • objections
  • obstructs
  • obviates
  • ostracizes
  • ousts
  • outlaws
  • pox
  • poxes
  • precludes
  • preventions
  • prevents
  • prohibitions
  • prohibits
  • proscribes
  • proscriptions
  • protests
  • puts down
  • quashes
  • quells
  • refusals
  • rejections
  • rejects
  • represses
  • repressions
  • repudiates
  • restrains
  • restraints
  • restrictions
  • rules out
  • shuts out
  • silences
  • spells
  • squashes
  • squelches
  • staves off
  • stops
  • subdues
  • suppresses
  • suppressions
  • suspends
  • taboos
  • tabus
  • throws out
  • vetoes
  • voodoos
  • warnings
  • whammies
  • winzes

calling

  • abandoning
  • abandonment
  • abolishment
  • abolition
  • aborting
  • abortion
  • abrogating
  • accounting
  • alerting
  • amassing
  • announcing
  • annulling
  • annulment
  • anticipating
  • appointment
  • art
  • asking
  • assembling
  • assignment
  • auguring
  • baptising
  • baptizing
  • bawling
  • baying
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  • beeping
  • believing
  • bellowing
  • berth
  • bidding
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  • branding
  • breaking off
  • business
  • buzzing
  • calculating
  • call
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  • calling in
  • calling off
  • calling out
  • calling up
  • cancelation
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  • career
  • caterwauling
  • cautioning
  • christening
  • citing
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  • code-naming
  • cold-calling
  • collecting
  • coming by
  • coming over
  • commanding
  • conceiving
  • concluding
  • conjecturing
  • considering
  • convening
  • convoking
  • countermanding
  • counting
  • craft
  • crowing
  • crying
  • crying off
  • day gig
  • declaring
  • decreeing
  • deducing
  • deeming
  • demanding
  • denominating
  • denoting
  • designating
  • dialing
  • dialling
  • dictating
  • directing
  • discontinuing
  • divining
  • do
  • dodge
  • dropping
  • dropping by
  • dropping in
  • dubbing
  • duty
  • employment
  • ending
  • engagement
  • enterprise
  • entitling
  • esteeming
  • estimating
  • extrapolating
  • fancying
  • feeling
  • field
  • figuring
  • forboding
  • foreboding
  • forecasting
  • foreknowing
  • foreseeing
  • foretelling
  • forewarning
  • frequenting
  • function
  • gaging
  • game
  • gathering
  • gauging
  • gig
  • giving up
  • go
  • grouping
  • guessing
  • hailing
  • hallooing
  • halting
  • handcraft
  • handicraft
  • hang
  • haunting
  • heralding
  • holding
  • holding back
  • hollering
  • holloing
  • howling
  • imagining
  • inferring
  • interrupting
  • invalidating
  • invalidation
  • inviting
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  • job
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  • knelling
  • labeling
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  • lay
  • lifework
  • line
  • livelihood
  • living
  • load
  • looking up
  • making
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  • miscalling
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  • mission
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  • mustering
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  • neutralization
  • nicknaming
  • nine-to-five
  • nominating
  • nullification
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  • occupation
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  • ordaining
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  • paging
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  • portending
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  • post
  • predicting
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  • proclaiming
  • profession
  • prognosticating
  • promising
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  • province
  • pursuit
  • putting
  • racket
  • rallying
  • rat race
  • rating
  • reading
  • reasoning
  • reassembling
  • recall
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  • recanting
  • rechristening
  • recision
  • reckoning
  • reconvening
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  • relinquishing
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  • renaming
  • repeal
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  • requesting
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  • rescinding
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  • ringing
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  • seeing
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  • situation
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  • surrender
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  • swindle
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  • understanding
  • vaticinating
  • viewing
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  • voidance
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  • wailing
  • walk of life
  • warning
  • whistling
  • whooping
  • withdrawing
  • work
  • workload
  • writing off
  • yauping
  • yawping
  • yelling
  • yowling

canniness

  • Fabian policy
  • ability
  • acumen
  • adroitness
  • anticipation
  • art
  • artfulness
  • artifice
  • astuteness
  • attention
  • bettering
  • brains
  • cageyness
  • caginess
  • calculation
  • care
  • carefulness
  • caution
  • cautiousness
  • chariness
  • chicanery
  • circumspection
  • clairvoyance
  • clear-sightedness
  • cleverness
  • competition
  • competitive advantage
  • competitive edge
  • concern
  • considerateness
  • consideration
  • contrivance
  • craft
  • craftiness
  • cunning
  • cunningness
  • cutthroat
  • deceit
  • deceitfulness
  • deliberation
  • design
  • deviousness
  • dexterity
  • diplomacy
  • discernment
  • discreetness
  • discretion
  • discrimination
  • disingenuity
  • duplicity
  • ease
  • economy
  • facility
  • far-sightedness
  • finesse
  • flair
  • foreknowledge
  • foresight
  • forethought
  • foxiness
  • frugality
  • gamesmanship
  • gift
  • good sense
  • gray matter
  • guile
  • guilefulness
  • gumption
  • hardheadedness
  • heed
  • heedfulness
  • ingeniousness
  • ingenuity
  • insight
  • insurance
  • intellect
  • intelligence
  • inventiveness
  • judgment
  • judiciousness
  • keenness
  • knowingness
  • long-sightedness
  • maturity
  • moderation
  • observation
  • outfoxing
  • outsmarting
  • outwitting
  • perception
  • perceptiveness
  • perceptivity
  • percipience
  • perspicacity
  • planning
  • precaution
  • precognition
  • preconception
  • premeditation
  • premonition
  • prenotion
  • prescience
  • presence of mind
  • prospect
  • protection
  • providence
  • provision
  • prudence
  • quick wit
  • quickness
  • reason
  • regard
  • resourcefulness
  • responsibility
  • restraint
  • rivaling
  • ruse
  • safeguard
  • safety measure
  • sagaciousness
  • sagacity
  • sageness
  • sapience
  • savvy
  • sense
  • sharpness
  • shiftiness
  • shrewdness
  • skill
  • slickness
  • slyness
  • smartness
  • sneakiness
  • solicitude
  • sophrosyne
  • stratagem
  • strategy
  • subterfuge
  • subtleness
  • subtlety
  • tact
  • talent
  • temperance
  • thought
  • thoughtfulness
  • thrift
  • trickery
  • trickiness
  • underhandedness
  • vigilance
  • wariness
  • warning
  • watchfulness
  • wiles
  • wiliness
  • wisdom
  • wit

electrifying

  • AC
  • DC
  • X-rated
  • abrupt
  • absorbing
  • accidental
  • active
  • adrenalizing
  • affecting
  • agitative
  • alluring
  • amazing
  • amiable
  • animated
  • animating
  • appealing
  • arousing
  • arresting
  • arrestive
  • astonishing
  • astounding
  • attractive
  • awakening
  • beating
  • bewitching
  • bizarre
  • blood-tingling
  • bloodcurdling
  • booming
  • boss
  • bracing
  • breathtaking
  • captivating
  • challenging
  • chance
  • charged
  • charging
  • charismatic
  • charming
  • chilling
  • choice
  • clangorous
  • cliff-hanging
  • climactic
  • cogent
  • colored
  • comic
  • commanding
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  • confounding
  • consonant
  • conspicuous
  • cute
  • dainty
  • dangerous
  • dazzling
  • deep
  • deep-toned
  • delectable
  • delicate
  • delightful
  • delighting
  • desirable
  • distinguished
  • dramatic
  • dramaturgic
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  • drop-dead
  • dynamic
  • dynamite
  • earsplitting
  • echoing
  • effective
  • electric
  • electrical
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  • elegant
  • emotional
  • emphatic
  • enamoring
  • enchanting
  • energetic
  • energizing
  • engaging
  • engrossing
  • enhanced
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  • excessive
  • exciting
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  • exhilarative
  • expressive
  • exquisite
  • extraordinary
  • extravagant
  • eye-catching
  • eye-opening
  • eye-popping
  • fab
  • fabulous
  • far-out
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  • fetching
  • fine
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  • forceful
  • forcible
  • fortuitous
  • frantic
  • frightening
  • from left field
  • full
  • galvanic
  • galvanizing
  • glamorous
  • graceful
  • gripping
  • groovy
  • hair-raising
  • handsome
  • heady
  • heart-stopping
  • heartbreaking
  • heartrending
  • hectic
  • heightened
  • high-voltage
  • histrionic
  • histrionical
  • horrifying
  • hotdog
  • hypnotizing
  • impelling
  • impetuous
  • impressive
  • impulsive
  • inciting
  • infatuating
  • innerving
  • inspirational
  • inspiring
  • instantaneous
  • intensified
  • interesting
  • intoxicating
  • intriguing
  • invigorating
  • inviting
  • irresistible
  • jazzy
  • juiced
  • juicy
  • kicky
  • kinetic
  • large
  • likable
  • lively
  • lofty
  • loud
  • lovable
  • lovely
  • lurid
  • lusty
  • mad
  • magnetic
  • magnetizing
  • magnificent
  • marked
  • mellow
  • melodramatic
  • memorable
  • mesmerizing
  • mind-bending
  • mind-blowing
  • mind-boggling
  • miraculous
  • motivating
  • motor-driven
  • moving
  • neat
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  • noisy
  • not bargained for
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  • noteworthy
  • noticeable
  • orotund
  • out of the blue
  • out of the ordinary
  • outstanding
  • overpowering
  • overwhelming
  • payback
  • peppy
  • piquant
  • plangent
  • pleasant
  • pleasing
  • poignant
  • pointed
  • power-driven
  • powerful
  • prodigious
  • profound
  • prominent
  • provocative
  • provoking
  • pulsating
  • pulsing
  • pumping up
  • pungent
  • quickening
  • racy
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  • ravishing
  • refreshing
  • reinvigorating
  • remarkable
  • renewing
  • resounding
  • responsive
  • restorative
  • revealing
  • reverberant
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  • rich
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  • riveting
  • roaring
  • roborant
  • rotund
  • round
  • rousing
  • salient
  • scandalous
  • seducing
  • seductive
  • sensational
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  • shivering
  • shocking
  • showy
  • signal
  • singular
  • sonorant
  • sonorous
  • sound
  • sparkling
  • spectacular
  • spellbinding
  • spine-chilling
  • spine-tingling
  • spirited
  • staggering
  • startling
  • stentorian
  • stimulating
  • stirring
  • strident
  • striking
  • stunning
  • sudden
  • sultry
  • surprising
  • suspenseful
  • sweet
  • swift
  • swinging
  • tabloid
  • tantalizing
  • telling
  • tempting
  • tense
  • terrifying
  • theatrical
  • thespian
  • thought-provoking
  • thrilling
  • throbbing
  • thundering
  • thunderous
  • titillating
  • touching
  • tragic
  • tragicomic
  • trembling
  • turning on
  • unanticipated
  • unforeseen
  • unheralded
  • unlooked-for
  • unpredictable
  • unpredicted
  • unusual
  • vibrant
  • vigorous
  • virile
  • vital
  • vitalizing
  • vivacious
  • vivid
  • vivifying
  • voltaic
  • vulgar
  • wild
  • winning
  • winsome
  • without warning
  • wonderful
  • wondrous
  • zero cool
  • zestful
  • zesty
  • zippy

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