reproofnoun [ C or U ]
uk/rɪˈpruːf/us/rɪˈpruːf/formalsomething that you say or do to show that you disapprove of someone's bad or silly behaviour:
She got a sharp reproof for being late.
He picked up the broken vase without a word of reproof to his son.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Chastising & rebuking
- admonition
- barracking
- bawl
- be in sb's face idiom
- beat yourself up
- bring
- come down on sb like a ton of bricks idiom
- dressing-down
- keelhaul
- lambaste
- lay
- neck
- rebuke
- reprimand
- reproachful
- there'll be hell to pay idiom
- throw
- throw the book at sb idiom
- tirade
- upbraid
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