Cautionary

Definitions: Cautionary

Cautionary

Adjective

1. Tending to ward off; "the swastika...a very ancient prophylactic symbol occurring among all peoples"- Victor Schultze.

2. Serving to warn; "shook a monitory finger at him"; "an exemplary jail sentence".

Date "cautionary" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1650. (references)

Synonyms: Cautionary

Synonyms: admonitory (adj), exemplary (adj), monitory (adj), preventive (adj), prophylactic (adj), warning(a) (adj). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Warning	Adjective: warning; Verb: premonitory, monitory, cautionary; admonitory, admonitive; sematic.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Cautionary

English words defined with "cautionary": admonition ♦ monition ♦ red light ♦ warning, warning light, word of advice. (references)

Specialty definitions using "cautionary": videotex. (references)

Domain	Usage
Movie/TV Titles	Cautionary Tales for Children (1996)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
Books	Cautionary Tales for Children (reference) Conned Again, Watson! Cautionary Tales of Logic, Math, and Probability (reference) Honeymooners: A Cautionary Tale (reference) Into -- And Out of -- The Gap: A Cautionary Account of an American Retailer (reference) My Idea of Fun: A Cautionary Tale (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Business		One cautionary note, however, is that businesses still feeling the sting of the economic crisis and finding borrowing money difficult are reluctant to invest vast sums of money in technologies that they do not see giving an immediate benefit to production. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Cautionary" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 96.91% of the time. "Cautionary" is used about 97 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	96.91%	94	33,845
Noun (proper)	3.09%	3	202,518
Total	100.00%	97	N/A

Expressions using "cautionary": Cautionary block ♦ cautionary measure ♦ cautionary tale. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "cautionary"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		paralajmërues (admonitory, augural, Herald, monitory, precursory, premonitory, prognostic). (various references)

Arabic		‏تحذيري (warning). (various references)

Bulgarian		предупредителен (admonitory, monitory, precautionary, premonitory), предпазен (defensive, precautionary, preventative, preventive, prophylactic, protective, safety, sematic, warning). (various references)

Chinese		警告 (Cautioned, Cautioning, Caveat, Warn, Warned, Warning). (various references)

Czech		varovný (admonitory, monitory, premonitory, warning), výstražný (monitory, premonitory, warning), pouèný (illuminating, informative, instructive). (various references)

French		mesures de précaution (cautionary measure). (various references)

German		warn-, belehrend (didactic, educational, instructive). (various references)

Greek		προειδοποιητικόσ (monitorial, monitory, precursory, premonitary, premonitory). (various references)

Hungarian		figyelmeztetõ (admonitory, exhortative, monitory, premonitory), óva intõ. (various references)

Italian		cauzionale, ammonitorio (admonitory, monitory, warning). (various references)

Manx		skeeal raauee (cautionary tale). (various references)

Pig Latin		autionarycay

Portuguese		cauteloso (cagey, cannie, cautious, deliberate, gingerly, guardedly, heedless, mature, prudent, reserved, vigilant, wary, watchful). (various references)

Romanian		prevenitor (admonitory, amiable, amiably, courteous). (various references)

Russian		предупреждающий (anticipatory, premonitory), предостерегающий (admonitory, monitory). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		koji opominje (admonitory, exhortative, monitory). (various references)

Spanish		amonestado (admonished), advertido. (various references)

Swedish		varnings- (telltale), varnande (admonitory, premonitory, warning). (various references)

Thai		ที่ให้คำแนะนำหรือคำเตือน. (various references)

Turkish		uyarıcı (admonitory, exciting, premonitory, reviver, speed, stimulant, stimulating, stimulative, stimulus, up, upper, warning), ikaz edici. (various references)

Ukranian		обережний (alert, canny, careful, cautious, chary, circumspect, circumspective, deliberate, discreet, fabian, gingerly, heedful, precautious, tender, up and coming, ware, wary, watchful), застережливий (admonitory), попереджувальний (precautionary, warning). (various references)

Vietnamese		để quở trách (remonstrative), để cảnh cáo để cảnh cáo, để báo trước. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words ending with "cautionary": precautionary. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Cautionary" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: castronery. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "cautionary" (pronounced kô"shune'rē)
6	-sh u n e' r ē	concessionary, confectionary, confectionery, counterrevolutionary, deflationary, dictionary, discretionary, disinflationary, evolutionary, expansionary, expeditionary, functionary, inflationary, missionary, noninflationary, probationary, reactionary, recessionary, revolutionary, stationary, stationery.
5	-u n e' r ē	bicentenary, cardiopulmonary, centenary, coronary, culinary, disciplinary, diversionary, exclusionary, extraordinary, illusionary, imaginary, interdisciplinary, luminary, mercenary, ordinary, preliminary, pulmonary, seminary, urinary, veterinary, visionary.
4	-n e' r ē	quaternary.
3	-e' r ē	actuary, adversary, ancillary, apothecary, arbitrary, aviary, beneficiary, Blackberry, blueberry, budgetary, capillary, Cassowary, cemetery, cometary, commentary, commissary, Constabulary, contemporary, corollary, cranberry, customary, depositary, Dewberry, dietary, dignitary, Dogberry, dromedary, dysentery, emissary, epistolary, estuary, fiduciary, formulary, fragmentary, funerary, gooseberry, hackberry, hereditary, honorary, Huckleberry, interplanetary, involuntary, itinerary, judiciary, lapidary, legendary, library, literary, military, momentary, monastery, monetary, mortuary, mulberry, necessary, nonmilitary, obituary, paramilitary, pecuniary, pituitary, planetary, primary, proprietary, raspberry, Rosemary, salutary, sanctuary, sanitary, savagery, secondary, secretary, sedentary, semilegendary, solitary, statuary, strawberry, subsidiary, temporary, Tilbury, topiary, tributary, undersecretary, unitary, unnecessary, unsanitary, vocabulary.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-c-i-n-o-r-t-u-y"
	-2 letters: caryotin, raincoat.
	-3 letters: actuary, anticar, auction, carotin, caution, country, courant, curtain, ocarina, rainout, raucity, ruction, truancy, tyronic, unitary.
	-4 letters: acinar, action, acuity, antiar, anuria, anuric, aortic, arnica, aroint, aroynt, atonic, cairny, canary, cantor, carina, carton, cation, citron, contra, cornua, cortin, county, crania, craton, crayon, notary, nutria, outcry, outran, ratany, ration, toucan, tunica, turaco.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-c-i-n-o-r-t-u-y"
	+2 letters: annunciatory.
	+3 letters: anfractuosity, connaturality, hallucinatory, intraocularly, precautionary.
	+4 letters: aeronautically, cyanobacterium, ichthyosaurian, ultrasonically, unromantically, unsatisfactory.
	+5 letters: agranulocytosis, astronautically, ichthyosaurians, neuropathically.
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