expostulative
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expostulative — expostˈūlātive (or / ə tiv/) or expostˈūlātory (or / ə tər i/) adjective Containing expostulation • • • Main Entry: ↑expostulate … Useful english dictionary
Garner's Modern American Usage — Author(s) Bryan A. Garner … Wikipedia
expostulatory — /ik spos cheuh leuh tawr ee, tohr ee/, adj. expostulating; conveying expostulation. Also, expostulative /ik spos cheuh lay tiv/. [1580 90; EXPOSTULATE + ORY1] * * * … Universalium
advisory — Synonyms and related words: admonition, admonitory, bulletin, cautionary, communicative, consultative, consultatory, council, deliberative, didactic, directive, educational, educative, enlightening, exhortative, exhortatory, expostulative,… … Moby Thesaurus
didactic — Synonyms and related words: Alcaic, Anacreontic, Castalian, Homeric, Hudibrastic, Pierian, Pindaric, Theocritean, admonitory, advisory, authoritative, autodidactic, bardic, binding, bucolic, canonical, cautionary, coeducational, consultative,… … Moby Thesaurus
directive — Synonyms and related words: actuating, admonitory, advisory, aimable, aimed, animating, causal, causative, cautionary, chief, commanding, communication, compelling, consultative, consultatory, controlling, decree, decretal, decretive, decretory,… … Moby Thesaurus
hortatory — Synonyms and related words: admonitory, advisory, autodidactic, cajoling, cautionary, coeducational, consultative, consultatory, cultural, didactic, directive, disciplinary, edifying, educating, educational, educative, enlightening, exhortative,… … Moby Thesaurus
instructive — Synonyms and related words: admonitory, advisory, authoritative, autodidactic, binding, canonical, cautionary, coeducational, commanding, communicative, compelling, consultative, consultatory, cultural, decretal, decretive, decretory, dictated,… … Moby Thesaurus
monitory — Synonyms and related words: admonishing, admonitory, advisory, augural, cautionary, cautioning, communicative, consultative, consultatory, counseling, critical, deterrent, didactic, directive, discouraging, disinclining, dissuading, dissuasive,… … Moby Thesaurus
moralistic — Synonyms and related words: admonitory, advisory, axiological, cautionary, consultative, consultatory, didactic, directive, ethical, ethological, exhortative, exhortatory, expostulative, expostulatory, hortative, hortatory, instructive,… … Moby Thesaurus
