cautionary

  • (s) warding off
    • "the swastika...a very ancient prophylactic symbol occurring among all peoples"- Victor Schultze
    prophylactic,
  • (s) serving to warn
    • shook a monitory finger at him
    • an exemplary jail sentence
    admonitory, monitory, warning, exemplary,

Synonyms

prophylactic admonitory monitory warning exemplary

Words of close approximity