advice

Roget category 695

5. Words relating to the voluntary powers
› 5.3. Voluntary action
›› 5.3.2. Complex voluntary action

#695. Advice

noun

advice, counsel, adhortation^† — word to the wise — suggestion, submonition^†, recommendation, advocacy — advisement.
exhortation etc. (persuasion) 615 — expostulation etc. (dissuasion) 616 — admonition etc. (warning) 668 — guidance etc. (direction) 693.
instruction, charge, injunction, obtestation^† — Governor's message, President's message — King's message, Queen's speech — message, speech from the throne.
adviser, prompter — counsel, counselor — monitor, mentor, Nestor, magnus Apollo [Lat.], senator — teacher etc. 540.
guide, manual, chart etc. (information) 527.
physician, doctor, leech^†, archiater^†.
arbiter etc. (judge) 967.
reference, referment^† — consultation, conference, pourparler.

verb

advise, counsel — give advice, give counsel, give a piece of advice [Fr.] — suggest, prompt, submonish^†, recommend, prescribe, advocate — exhort etc. (persuade) 615.
enjoin, enforce, charge, instruct, call — call upon etc. (request) 765 — dictate.
expostulate etc. (dissuade) 616 — admonish etc. (warn) 668.
advise with — lay heads together, consult together — compare notes — hold a council, deliberate, be closeted with.
confer, consult, refer to, call in — take advice, follow advice — be advised by, have at one's elbow, take one's cue from.

adjective

recommendatory — hortative etc. (persuasive) 615 — dehortatory etc. (dissuasive) 616^† — admonitory etc. (warning) 668.

interjection

go to!,

phrase

give every man thine ear but few thy voice" [Hamlet]; I pray thee cease thy counsel" [Much Ado About Nothing]; my guide, philosopher, and friend" [Pope]; 'twas good advice and meant, my son be good" [Crabbe]; verbum sat sapienti [Lat.], a word to the wise is sufficient — vive memor leti [Lat.] — we, ask advice but we mean approbation" [Colton].

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