Synonyms & related words for exhort

Find synonyms, related words, and the definition of exhort — including urge, admonish, encourage, warn, persuade, importune. Dendril is a free visual thesaurus that shows them on an interactive map where stronger matches sit closer to the center — no signup, no ads.

Words related to exhort

Explore words related to exhort — words associated with it, words that go with it, and its nearest matches in meaning. Related words include exhortatory, hortation, exhortative, exhortation, admonishingly, hortative, hortatory, implores. Click any word to make it the center of the map and keep exploring the web of connections.

Synonyms for exhort

Common synonyms for exhort include urge, admonish, encourage, warn, persuade, importune, preach, cajole — words that share a close meaning. Hover or tap any word on the map for its definition and part of speech.

Where does exhort come from?

The word exhort breaks down into 2 roots of Latin origin: ex-, from Latin ex (“out, forth”); and -hort, from Latin hortor (“urge, encourage”). Explore each root to see other English words built from the same source.