cautionary

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: cau=tion=ar=y

CIDE DICTIONARY

cautionary, a. 

•  Conveying a caution, or warning to avoid danger; as, cautionary signals.  [1913 Webster]
•  Given as a pledge or as security.  [1913 Webster]

  "He hated Barnevelt, for his getting the cautionary towns out of his hands."  [1913 Webster]
•  Wary; cautious.  Bacon.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

cautionary, adj. that gives or serves as a warning (a cautionary tale).

ROGET THESAURUS

cautionary

Warning

N warning, early warning, caution, caveat, notice, premonition, premonishment, prediction, contraindication, lesson, dehortation, admonition, monition, alarm, handwriting on the wall, mene mene tekel upharsin, red flag, yellow flag, fog-signal, foghorn, siren, monitor, warning voice, Cassandra, signs of the times, Mother Cary's chickens, stormy petrel, bird of ill omen, gathering clouds, clouds in the horizon, death watch, watchtower, beacon, signal post, lighthouse, sentinel, sentry, watch, watchman, watch and ward, watchdog, bandog, housedog, patrol, patrolman, vedette, picket, bivouac, scout, spy, spial, undercover agent, mole, plainclothesman, advanced guard, rear guard, lookout, cautiousness, monitor, guard camera, radar, AWACS, spy satellite, spy-in-the- sky, U2 plane, spy plane, warning, premonitory, monitory, cautionary, admonitory, admonitive, sematic, warned, forewarned, on one's guard, in terrorem, Int, beware!, ware!, take care!, look out!, fore (golf), mind what you are about!, take care what you are about!, mind!, ne reveillez pas le chat qui dort, don't wake a sleeping cat, foenum habet in cornu, caveat actor, le silence du people est la legon des rois, verbum sat sapienti, a word to the wise is sufficient, un averti en vaut deux.