ominous, sobering, portentous, cautious, caveat emptor, parenthetical, reassuring, salutary, alarmist, descriptive, downbeat, prefatory, hortatory, instructive, explanatory, cryptic, unsubtle, terse, precatory, unambiguous, wry, pithy, chilling, prescient, prophetic, precautionary, carpe diem, accompanying, conciliatory, poignant, encouraging, disquieting, upbeat, exclamatory, mordant, worrisome, denotative, careful, apposite, bluntest, caveated, literal, bathetic, tautological, delphic, rueful, cheery, blunter, disconcerting, unmistakable, minatory, nonliteral, connotative, trite, overcautious, declamatory, euphemistic, discouraging, suggestive, aphoristic, troubling, laudatory, gloomy, press release, starkest, subtle, wordsworthian, circumspect, unnerving, onomatopoeic, subjunctive mood, infelicitous, innocuous, explicit, somber, jaunty, italicized, oxymoronic, edifying, unsettling, offering circular, admonitory, paradoxical, jarring, unexceptionable, politically incorrect, illustrative, midrashic, placatory, bold, benign, glib, wistful, poetic, fainthearted, succinct, positive, plangent, deprecatory, denunciatory, hyperbolic, overhasty, monitory, condemnatory, disparaging, revealing, committal, uncomplimentary, accusatory, apologetic, heartening, censorious, commendatory

admonition, monition, red light, warning, warning light, word of advice

admonitory, dissuasive, exemplary, monitory, preventive, prophylactic, protective, warning