SUGGEST

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does suggest mean? 

• SUGGEST (verb)
  The verb SUGGEST has 4 senses:

1. make a proposal, declare a plan for something

2. drop a hint; intimate by a hint

3. imply as a possibility

4. call to mind

  Familiarity information: SUGGEST used as a verb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SUGGEST (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they suggest    ... he / she / it suggests   
Past simple: suggested   
Past participle: suggested   
-ing form: suggesting   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Make a proposal, declare a plan for something

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

advise; propose; suggest

Context example:

the senator proposed to abolish the sales tax

Hypernyms (to "suggest" is one way to...):

declare (state emphatically and authoritatively)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "suggest"):

advocate; recommend; urge (push for something)

advance; throw out (bring forward for consideration or acceptance)

proposition (suggest sex to)

feed back (respond to a query or outcome)

posit; put forward; state; submit (put before)

make a motion; move (propose formally; in a debate or parliamentary meeting)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sentence examples:

They suggest him to write the letter
They suggest to move

Derivation:

suggester (someone who advances a suggestion or proposal)

suggestible (susceptible or responsive to suggestion)

suggestion (a proposal offered for acceptance or rejection)

suggestion (persuasion formulated as a suggestion)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Drop a hint; intimate by a hint

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

hint; suggest

Hypernyms (to "suggest" is one way to...):

convey ((of information) make known; pass on)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "suggest"):

adumbrate; insinuate; intimate (give to understand)

clue in (provide someone with a clue)

advert; allude; touch (make a more or less disguised reference to)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP
Somebody ----s that CLAUSE

Sentence example:

They suggest that there was a traffic accident

Derivation:

suggester (someone who advances a suggestion or proposal)

suggestible (susceptible or responsive to suggestion)

suggestion (a proposal offered for acceptance or rejection)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Imply as a possibility

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

intimate; suggest

Context example:

The evidence suggests a need for more clarification

Hypernyms (to "suggest" is one way to...):

imply (suggest as a logically necessary consequence; in logic)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "suggest"):

make out (imply or suggest)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s something

Derivation:

suggestible (susceptible or responsive to suggestion)

suggestion (persuasion formulated as a suggestion)

suggestive (tending to suggest or imply)

suggestive ((usually followed by 'of') pointing out or revealing clearly)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Call to mind

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

evoke; paint a picture; suggest

Context example:

this remark evoked sadness

Hypernyms (to "suggest" is one way to...):

evince; express; show (give expression to)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "suggest"):

reek; smack; smell (have an element suggestive (of something))

imply; incriminate; inculpate (suggest that someone is guilty)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s something

Derivation:

suggestion (the sequential mental process in which one thought leads to another by association)

 Context examples 

"I dare say she'd put them back if you asked her," suggested someone.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

I would suggest you sign February 1 until February 11, but no later.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

"Can we be in the wrong cave?" I suggested.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

"We'd better have him to dinner," she suggested.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

“That he may be ready?” I suggested.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

"Take Collie inside and leave the two of them to fight it out," suggested Scott's father.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

“Ask him something that requires no for an answer,” I suggested.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

It has been suggested that AUH may have a novel role as a mitochondrial located AU-binding protein.

(AU RNA Binding Protein, NCI Thesaurus/LocusLink)

It has been suggested that azimexon may alkylate DNA.

(Azimexon, NCI Thesaurus)

Recent evidence suggests derivation from a plasmacytoid monocyte.

(Blastic Plasmacytoid Dendritic Cell Neoplasm, NCI Thesaurus)