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advisory
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun advisory has 1 sense
- advisory(n = noun.communication) Array - an announcement that usually advises or warns the public of some threat; "a frost advisory" is a kind of announcement, promulgation
Derived forms verb advise1, adjective advisory1
Adjective advisory has 1 sense
- advisory(s = adj.all) consultative, consultatory, consultive - giving advice; "an advisory memorandum"; "his function was purely consultative" Derived forms verb advise1, noun advisory1
CIDE DICTIONARY
advisory, a.
Having power to advise; containing advice; as, an advisory council; their opinion is merely advisory. [1913 Webster]
"The General Association has a general advisory superintendence over all the ministers and churches."
[1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
advisory, adj. & n.
--adj.
1 giving advice; constituted to give advice (an advisory body).
2 consisting in giving advice.
--n. (pl. -ies) US an advisory statement, esp. a bulletin about bad weather.
--adj.
1 giving advice; constituted to give advice (an advisory body).
2 consisting in giving advice.
--n. (pl. -ies) US an advisory statement, esp. a bulletin about bad weather.
THESAURUS
advisory
admonition, admonitory, bulletin, cautionary, communicative, consultative, consultatory, council, deliberative, didactic, directive, educational, educative, enlightening, exhortative, exhortatory, expostulative, expostulatory, hortative, hortatory, informational, informative, informing, instructive, monitorial, monitory, moralistic, notice, preachy, prediction, recommendatory, remonstrant, remonstrative, remonstratory, sententious, synodal, synodic, warning
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