Expostulatory
21remonstrative — I adjective admonitive, admonitory, argumentative, censorious, contentious, corrective, critical, dehortative, dehortatory, demurring, deprecative, deprecatory, discouraging, disputatious, dissuasive, enjoining, expostulatory, exprobrative,… …
22advisory — Synonyms and related words: admonition, admonitory, bulletin, cautionary, communicative, consultative, consultatory, council, deliberative, didactic, directive, educational, educative, enlightening, exhortative, exhortatory, expostulative,… …
23deterrent — Synonyms and related words: admonishing, admonitory, alarming, awing, bar, block, blockade, bottleneck, catch, cautionary, cautioning, check, chill, chilling, cold water, cordon, curtain, damp, damper, daunting, determent, deterring, difficulty,… …
24didactic — Synonyms and related words: Alcaic, Anacreontic, Castalian, Homeric, Hudibrastic, Pierian, Pindaric, Theocritean, admonitory, advisory, authoritative, autodidactic, bardic, binding, bucolic, canonical, cautionary, coeducational, consultative,… …
25directive — Synonyms and related words: actuating, admonitory, advisory, aimable, aimed, animating, causal, causative, cautionary, chief, commanding, communication, compelling, consultative, consultatory, controlling, decree, decretal, decretive, decretory,… …
26discouraging — Synonyms and related words: admonitory, alarming, awing, black, bleak, cautionary, chilling, daunting, depressant, depressing, depressive, deterrent, deterring, disconcerting, disheartening, disinclining, dismal, dismaying, dispiriting,… …
27hortatory — Synonyms and related words: admonitory, advisory, autodidactic, cajoling, cautionary, coeducational, consultative, consultatory, cultural, didactic, directive, disciplinary, edifying, educating, educational, educative, enlightening, exhortative,… …
28instructive — Synonyms and related words: admonitory, advisory, authoritative, autodidactic, binding, canonical, cautionary, coeducational, commanding, communicative, compelling, consultative, consultatory, cultural, decretal, decretive, decretory, dictated,… …
29intimidating — Synonyms and related words: abusive, admonitory, bludgeoning, blustering, browbeating, bulldozing, bullying, cautionary, comminatory, denunciatory, deterrent, discouraging, disinclining, dissuading, dissuasive, expostulatory, fear inspiring,… …
30monitory — Synonyms and related words: admonishing, admonitory, advisory, augural, cautionary, cautioning, communicative, consultative, consultatory, counseling, critical, deterrent, didactic, directive, discouraging, disinclining, dissuading, dissuasive,… …
