suggest

Verb

Verb Forms: suggested, suggesting, suggests

• To bring or put forward for consideration.
• make a proposal, declare a plan for something
• drop a hint; intimate by a hint
• imply as a possibility
  • "The evidence suggests a need for more clarification"
• suggest the necessity of an intervention; in medicine
• call to mind
• To imply but stop short of explicitly stating (something).
• To cause one to suppose (something); to bring to one's mind the idea (of something).
• To explicitly mention (something) as a possibility for consideration, often to recommend it.
• To seduce; to prompt to evil; to tempt.

Examples

• Are you suggesting that I killed my wife?
• He suggests that we celebrate with dinner at Bellissimo. He suggests our celebrating with dinner at Bellissimo.
• I’d SUGGEST keeping an eye on the triple word score; it’s wide open.
• The guidebook suggested that we visit the local cathedral, so that's what we did.
• The name "hamburger" suggests that hamburgers originated from Hamburg.
• This meeting venue was suggested to us by our boss.

Synonyms

advise, evoke, hint, indicate, intimate, paint a picture, propose, allude, bring up, float, hazard, imply, insinuate, moot, venture

Antonyms

contraindicate