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Monish

Definition: Monish

Monish

Verb

1. Warn strongly; put on guard.

2. Admonish or counsel in terms of someone's behavior; "I warned him not to go too far";"I warn you against false assumptions"; "She warned him to be quiet".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "monish" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1532. (references)

Etymology: Monish \Mon"ish\, transitive verb. [from Old English expression monesten. See Admonish, Monition.]. (Websters 1913)


Synonyms: Monish

Synonyms: admonish (v), caution (v), discourage (v), warn (v). (additional references)

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Derivations & Misspellings: Monish

Derivations

Words beginning with "monish": monished, monishes, monishing. (additional references)

Words ending with "monish": admonish, lemonish, premonish. (additional references)

Words containing "monish": admonished, admonisher, admonishers, admonishes, admonishing, admonishingly, admonishment, admonishments, premonished, premonishes, premonishing. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Monish" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: johnish, Konishi, manish, Mcomish, mennish, moenich, molish, Monagh, Monash, Monisha, moniz, monsi, mopish, morish, Muinish, munis, munshi, ninish, Nomich, Onishi, soonish, tonish. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Monish"

Words rhyming with "monish" (pronounced 'Mon"ish'): Abolish, Admonish, Affamish, Alish, Amateurish, Apish, Aspish, Assish, Astonish, Babish, Baboonish, Balkish, Banish, Bardish, Basquish, Bearish, Beauish, Blackish, Blockish, Bluish, Bluntish, Boarish, Bookish, Boorish, Boyish, Brackish, Brainish, Brinish, Broadish, Brockish, Brownish, Buccaneerish, Buckish, Buffoonish, Bullish, Calvish, Cavalierish, Cherish, Childish, Churlish, Clayish, Clownish, Coldish, Coltish, Coolish, Coyish, Czarish, Dampish, Danish, Dankish. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Monish

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "h-i-m-n-o-s"

-2 letters: hins, hisn, hons, ions, mhos, miso, mons, mosh, nims, noms, nosh, ohms, shim, shin, shmo, sinh.

-3 letters: him, hin, his, hon, ins, ion, ism, mho, mis, mon, mos, nim, noh, nom, nos, ohm, ohs, oms, ons, sim, sin, som, son.

-4 letters: hi, hm, ho, in, is, mi, mo, no, oh, om, on, os.

 Words containing the letters "h-i-m-n-o-s"
 

+1 letter: gnomish, homines, monkish, moonish, moshing.

 

+2 letters: admonish, chrismon, chymosin, hedonism, hindmost, hominess, hominids, hominies, insomuch, lemonish, mahonias, manihots, monished, monishes, monkfish, moonfish, morphins, thymosin, unmodish, womanish.

 

+3 letters: bohemians, bonhomies, champions, chrismons, chromings, chymosins, demijohns, harmonics, harmonies, harmonise, hedonisms, hemolysin, heroinism, himations, hominians, hominizes, hominoids, horsemint, humanoids, hymnodies, hypnotism, inchworms, macintosh, midmonths, misthrown, monachism, monishing, monoliths, monteiths, monthlies, moonishly, moonshine, morphines, omniarchs, phonemics, premonish, rhodamins, shamoying, shmoozing, smooching, smoothing, something, songsmith, symphonic, thermions, thrombins, thymosins.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Monish


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4D 6F 6E 69 73 68

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

--    ---    -.    ..    ...    ....

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001101 01101111 01101110 01101001 01110011 01101000

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#77 &#111 &#110 &#105 &#115 &#104

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004D 006F 006E 0069 0073 0068

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

478180758574

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Derivations
4. Rhymes
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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