caveat

Meaning

Noun

1. A warning.
2. A qualification or exemption.
3. A formal objection.
4. A formal objection.
5. A notice requesting a postponement of a court proceeding.

Verb

1. (transitive) To qualify a statement with a caveat or proviso.
2. (transitive) To formally object to something.
3. (specifically, transitive) To formally object to something.
4. (dated, transitive) To issue a notice requesting that proceedings be suspended.
5. (obsolete, transitive) To warn or caution against some event.

Synonyms

caution

warning

⚠️

admonition

alert

monition

admonishment

notice

red flag

exhortation

failure

heads-up

indication

objection

presage

rebuke

recommendation

remonstration

reprimand

respite

suspension

advocacy

registration

advisory

alarm

awakening

commination

dissuasion

enrolment

exception

Translations

avertissement

⚠️

recommandation

advertencia

⚠️

Warnung

⚠️

waarschuwing

⚠️

ammonimento

aviso

⚠️

preservamento

protest

Patentanmeldung

diffida

avvertimento

⚠️

Einspruch

caveat

Vorbehalt

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈkævɪæt/

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin caveat (“may he/she/it beware”), third-person singular present active subjunctive of caveō (“I beware of”). Doublet of show, both ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewh₁- (“to heed, look, feel, take note of”).