Suggest synonyms
səg-jĕst', sə-jĕst'
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To have as a necessary part, condition, or effect; contain, include, or involve naturally or necessarily
To advise; counsel; suggest
To offer as advice; recommend
To put in opposition to; to manifest in an offensive way; to threaten.
hint (related)
To give a hint of; suggest indirectly; intimate
To show the need for; call for; make necessary
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(Intransitive) To require as a logical predicate to consequence.
(Intransitive) To refer to something indirectly or by suggestion.
suggest (related)
The definition of an example of suggest is to propose something or offer up a potential option for consideration.
To conclude from evidence or by reasoning:
To make evident indirectly:
To express or otherwise convey (a thought, for example) in an indirect or insidious way.
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explain (related)
conclude (related)
Or (intransitive) To enter or put forward for approval, consideration, marking etc.
point to
To lead to by logical inference
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contraindicate (antonym)
(Medicine) To make inadvisable; to warn against a specific medicine or treatment.
To cause to turn sideways to oncoming waves, especially large or breaking waves.
To propose; to recommend; specifically, to propose formally for consideration and determination, in a deliberative assembly; to submit, as a resolution to be adopted; as, to move to adjourn.
To put forward for consideration; propose
To be pressing in argument; to insist; to persist.
tell (antonym)
(Intransitive) To have an effect, especially a noticeable one; to be apparent, to be demonstrated.
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order (antonym)
To request to be supplied with:
demand (antonym)
To ask for urgently or peremptorily:
declare (antonym)
To say positively or emphatically
To lend
To present or constitute:
(Idiomatic) To change the time in a time zone to a later time.
show (related)
Show is defined as to bring into view, teach, or display.
To draw forth or elicit (a particular mental image, reaction, etc.)
paint-a-picture
call to mind
argue (related)
point out (related)
assume (related)
believe (related)
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contend (related)
envisage (related)
emphasise (related)
hypothesise (related)
reveal (related)
pointing-out (related)
anticipate (related)
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To have a particular taste or smell:
To perceive or detect (something) by a chemosensory organ, such as an antenna.
Synonym Study
- Insinuate implies the subtle hinting of something disagreeable or of that which one lacks the courage to say outright are you insinuating that I am dishonest?
- Intimate suggests a making known obliquely by a very slight hint she only dared to intimate her feelings
- Hint connotes faint or indirect suggestion that is, however, intended to be understood he hinted that he would come
- Imply stresses a putting into the mind of something inherent in a word, remark, action, or situation, but not openly expressed, and suggests the need for inference the answer implied a refusal, her novels imply a belief that good triumphs over evil
- Suggest implies a putting of something into the mind either intentionally, as by way of a proposal I suggest you leave now, or unintentionally, as through association of ideas the smell of ether suggests a hospital
Find another word for suggest. In this page you can discover 52 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for suggest, like: imply, propose, recommend, advise, offer, hint, indicate, allude to, connote, allude and suggest.
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