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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)

advisory
    adj 1: giving advice; "an advisory memorandum", "his function
           was purely consultative" [syn: advisory,
           consultative, consultatory, consultive]
    n 1: an announcement that usually advises or warns the public of
         some threat; "a frost advisory"

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Advisory \Ad*vi"so*ry\, a.
   Having power to advise; containing advice; as, an advisory
   council; their opinion is merely advisory.
   [1913 Webster]

         The General Association has a general advisory
         superintendence over all the ministers and churches.
                                                  --Trumbull.
   [1913 Webster]

Thesaurus Results for advisory:

1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

admonition, admonitory, bulletin, cautionary, communicative, consultative, consultatory, council, deliberative, didactic, directive, educational, educative, enlightening, exhortative, exhortatory, expostulative, expostulatory, hortative, hortatory, informational, informative, informing, instructive, monitorial, monitory, moralistic, notice, preachy, prediction, recommendatory, remonstrant, remonstrative, remonstratory, sententious, synodal, synodic, warning

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