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Definition of Suggest
1. Verb. Make a proposal, declare a plan for something. "They suggest to move "; "The senator proposed to abolish the sales tax"
Specialized synonyms: Advocate, Recommend, Urge, Advance, Throw Out, Proposition, Feed Back, Posit, Put Forward, State, Submit, Make A Motion, Move
Generic synonyms: Declare
Derivative terms: Proposal, Proposer, Proposition, Suggester, Suggestible, Suggestion, Suggestion
2. Verb. Drop a hint; intimate by a hint. "They suggest that there was a traffic accident "
Specialized synonyms: Adumbrate, Insinuate, Intimate, Clue In, Advert, Allude, Touch
Generic synonyms: Convey
Derivative terms: Hint, Hint, Hint, Suggester, Suggestible, Suggestion
3. Verb. Imply as a possibility. ; "The evidence suggests a need for more clarification"
Generic synonyms: Imply
Specialized synonyms: Make Out
Derivative terms: Intimation, Intimation, Suggestible, Suggestion, Suggestive, Suggestive
4. Verb. Suggest the necessity of an intervention; in medicine. "Tetracycline is indicated in such cases"
Generic synonyms: Inform
Antonyms: Contraindicate
Derivative terms: Indication, Indication, Indicative
5. Verb. Call to mind. "This remark evoked sadness"
Generic synonyms: Evince, Express, Show
Specialized synonyms: Reek, Smack, Smell, Imply, Incriminate, Inculpate
Derivative terms: Evocation, Evocative, Suggestion
Definition of Suggest
1. v. t. To introduce indirectly to the thoughts; to cause to be thought of, usually by the agency of other objects.
2. v. i. To make suggestions; to tempt.
Definition of Suggest
1. Verb. (transitive) To imply but stop short of saying explicitly. ¹
2. Verb. To make one suppose; cause one to suppose (something). ¹
3. Verb. (transitive) To ask for without demanding. ¹
4. Verb. (transitive) To recommend. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Suggest
1. to bring or put forward for consideration [v -ED, -ING, -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Suggest
Literary usage of Suggest
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Treatise of Human Nature: Being an Attempt to Introduce the Experimental by David Hume (1898)
"... Hume is ready on occasion to suggest that it has the distinctive character
which for the physiologist it would derive from the nerves organic to it, ..."
2. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"So happily are the modern regard for childhood and the latter's responsiveness
to adult sympathy blended in Blake's verses that they suggest the best ..."
3. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1888)
"This advice from an official of David's may suggest that in his later years, when
the death of ¡Stephen relaxed the Wids of English rule in Wales, ..."
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