recommend
Plural: recommends
Verb
- push for something
- "The travel agent recommended strongly that we not travel on Thanksgiving Day"
- express a good opinion of
- make attractive or acceptable
- "Honesty recommends any person"
- To bestow commendation on; to represent favourably; to suggest, endorse or encourage as an appropriate choice.
- To make acceptable; to attract favor to.
- To advise, propose, counsel favorably
- To commit, confide to another's care, confidence or acceptance, with favoring representations
Noun
- A recommendation.
Examples
- A city that has much to recommend it.
- A medieval oblate's parents recommended the boy for life to God and the monastery.
- My therapist recommended that I rest the mind and exercise the body.
- The board recommends Philips, given his ample experience in similar positions.
- The therapist recommends resting the mind and exercising the body.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English recommenden, from Old French recommender (compare French recommander), from Latin re- + commendāre (“to commend, commit; to recommend”), from con- + mandāre (“commit, intrust, enjoin”), from manus (“hand, handwriting, power”) + dare (“to give; to offer or render”).
Compare typologically Bulgarian препоръчам (preporǎčam), Serbo-Croatian препоручити, Slovene priporočiti, Czech doporučit, Slovak odporučiť (the same meaning); Russian поручи́ться (poručítʹsja), пору́ка (porúka), поручи́тельство (poručítelʹstvo) (close meaning), all related to Proto-Slavic *rǫka (Bulgarian ръка (rǎka), Russian рука́ (ruká)).
Antonyms
Scrabble Score: 16
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