Search Result for "hortatory":
Wordnet 3.0
ADJECTIVE (1)
1. giving strong encouragement;
[syn: exhortative, exhortatory, hortative, hortatory]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Hortatory \Hor"ta*to*ry\, a. [L. hortatorius.] Giving exhortation or advise; encouraging; exhortatory; inciting; as, a hortatory speech. --Holland. [1913 Webster]Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
49 Moby Thesaurus words for "hortatory": 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
