monitory
giving warning or admonition
Root
- mon: warn, remind, advise
Other words with the mon root
- admonish: to warn or correct firmly
- admonition: a warning or cautionary rebuke
- monitor: watcher or warner
- monument: structure that preserves memory
- premonition: a warning feeling before something happens
- premonitory: giving advance warning
- summon: to call forth or order to appear
Monitory language is warning-language: it tries to keep you from a mistake.
The judge’s monitory tone made the witness answer more carefully.