Dictionary Definition
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English
Adjective
- Giving exhortation or advice; encouraging; exhortatory; inciting; as, a hortatory speech.
Quotations
- 1992, Joyce
Carol Oates, Black
Water, Penguin Books, paperback edition, page 47
- Not in a curse but in a hortatory appeal.
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
admonitory, advisory, autodidactic, cajoling, cautionary, coeducational, consultative, consultatory, cultural, didactic, directive, disciplinary, edifying, educating, educational, educative, enlightening, exhortative, exhortatory, expostulative, expostulatory, homiletic, hortative, illuminating, informative, initiatory, instructive, introductory, lecturing, monitorial, monitory, moralistic, persuading, persuasive, preaching, preachy, preceptive, propaedeutic, recommendatory, remonstrant, remonstrative, remonstratory,
self-teaching, sententious, suasive, teaching, tuitionary, warning, wheedling