- 2. Spice, dash, infusion, sprinkling, touch, seasoning, smack, taste, tincture, tinge, hint, suggestion,
flavor, suspicion, soupçon.
Admonish, v. a.
- 1. Reprove (gently), censure, warn of a fault, rebuke.
- 2. Advise, counsel, caution, forewarn, warn, enjoin.
- 3. Instruct, inform, teach, apprise, acquaint, notify, make acquainted, make aware, remind.
Admonition, n.
- 1. Hint of a fault, gentle reproof, mild censure, slight rebuke, remonstrance.
- 2. Advice, counsel, caution, warning, monition, instruction, reminder.
Admonitory, a. Admonishing, monitory, cautionary, warning, counselling, admonitive.
Ado, n.
- 1. Trouble, difficulty, travail, toil, labor, pains.
- 2. Bustle, stir, flurry, fuss, hubbub, noise, tumult, turmoil, pother, bother, botherment, botheration (colloq.),
confusion, commotion, excitement, to-do (colloq.).
Adolescence, n. Youth, juvenility, minority, juniority, nonage, teens, springtime of life, dayspring of life, adolescency, growing, growing time, period of growth, growing up, prime of life, flower of life, bloom of life.
Adolescent, a. Youthful, juvenile, young, growing, in the teens, etc. See adolescence.
Adopt, v. a.
- 1. Appropriate, take to one’s self, take or select as one’s own, assume.
- 2. Approve, accept, avow, espouse, support, maintain.
- 3. Affiliate, father, take as one’s own child, treat as one’s own child.
Adoption, n.
- 1. Appropriation.
- 2. Approval, acceptance, avowal, espousal, support, maintenance.