What does suggest mean?

Definitions for suggest
səgˈdʒɛst, sə-sug·gest

This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word suggest.

Princeton's WordNet

  1. propose, suggest, adviseverb

    make a proposal, declare a plan for something

    "the senator proposed to abolish the sales tax"

  2. hint, suggestverb

    drop a hint; intimate by a hint

  3. suggest, intimateverb

    imply as a possibility

    "The evidence suggests a need for more clarification"

  4. indicate, suggestverb

    suggest the necessity of an intervention; in medicine

    "Tetracycline is indicated in such cases"

  5. suggest, evoke, paint a pictureverb

    call to mind

    "this remark evoked sadness"

Wiktionary

  1. suggestverb

    To imply but stop short of saying explicitly.

    Are you suggesting that I killed my wife?

  2. suggestverb

    To make one suppose; cause one to suppose (something).

    The name "hamburger" suggests that hamburgers originated from Hamburg.

  3. suggestverb

    To ask for without demanding.

    I'd like to suggest that we go out to lunch.

  4. suggestverb

    To recommend.

    The guidebook suggests that we visit the local cathedral, which is apparently beautiful.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. To SUGGESTverb

    Etymology: suggero, suggestum, Lat. suggerer, Fr.

    Are you not asham’d?
    What spirit suggests this imagination? William Shakespeare.

    I could never have suffered greater calamities, by denying to sign that justice my conscience suggested to me. Charles I .

    These Romish casuists speak peace to the consciences of men, by suggesting something to them, which shall satisfy their minds notwithstanding a known, actual, avowed continuance of their sins. Robert South, Sermons.

    Some ideas make themselves way, and are suggested to the mind by all the ways of sensation and reflexion. John Locke.

    Reflect upon the different state of the mind in thinking, which those instances of attention, reverie and dreaming naturally enough suggest. John Locke.

    Search for some thoughts thy own suggesting mind,
    And others dictated by heav’nly pow’r,
    Shall rise spontaneous. Alexander Pope, Odyssey.

    This the feeling heart
    Wou’d naturally suggest. James Thomson.

    When devils will their blackest sins put on,
    They do suggest at first with heav’nly shows. William Shakespeare.

    Knowing that tender youth is soon suggested,
    I nightly lodge her in an upper tower. William Shakespeare.

    We must suggest the people, in what hatred
    He still hath held them, that to’s pow’r he would
    Have made them mules. William Shakespeare, Coriolanus.

Wikipedia

  1. suggest

    Suggestion is the psychological process by which a person guides their own or another person's desired thoughts, feelings, and behaviors by presenting stimuli that may elicit them as reflexes instead of relying on conscious effort. Nineteenth-century writers on psychology such as William James used the words "suggest" and "suggestion" in the context of a particular idea which was said to suggest another when it brought that other idea to mind. Early scientific studies of hypnosis by Clark Leonard Hull and others extended the meaning of these words in a special and technical sense (Hull, 1933). The original neuropsychological theory of hypnotic suggestion was based upon the ideomotor reflex response that William B. Carpenter declared, in 1852, was the principle through which James Braid's hypnotic phenomena were produced.

ChatGPT

  1. suggest

    Suggest means to put forward for consideration or to propose an idea, plan, or thought. It can also imply that there is a hint or indication of a certain outcome, situation, or fact.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Suggestverb

    to introduce indirectly to the thoughts; to cause to be thought of, usually by the agency of other objects

  2. Suggestverb

    to propose with difference or modesty; to hint; to intimate; as, to suggest a difficulty

  3. Suggestverb

    to seduce; to prompt to evil; to tempt

  4. Suggestverb

    to inform secretly

  5. Suggestverb

    to make suggestions; to tempt

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Suggest

    suj-jest′, v.t. to introduce indirectly to the thoughts: to hint.—v.i. to make suggestions.—ns. Sugges′ter; Suggestibil′ity, capability of being suggested.—adj. Sugges′tible.—n. Sugges′tion, act of suggesting: hint: proposal: incitement, temptation: (law) information without oath, not being pleadable: the act of exercising control over a hypnotised subject by communicating some belief or impulse by means of words or gestures, also the idea so suggested; Sugges′tionism, the theory that hypnotic effects are entirely due to the action of suggestion upon weak persons; Sugges′tionist, one who holds this view.—adj. Sugges′tive, containing a hint: fitted to suggest: pertaining to hypnotic suggestion.—adv. Sugges′tively.—ns. Sugges′tiveness, state of being suggestive; Sugges′tor; Sugges′tress; Sugges′tum, a raised platform. [L. sub, under, gerĕre, gestum, to carry.]

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  1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'suggest' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #1184

  2. Written Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'suggest' in Written Corpus Frequency: #992

  3. Verbs Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'suggest' in Verbs Frequency: #72

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of suggest in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of suggest in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of suggest in a Sentence

  1. Robert Sanders:

    Everybody's posting,' Hey, what about Amazon, I suggest you hold on to your property,' everything a realtor doesn't want to hear.

  2. Lena Komileva:

    It's a little more complicated than it used to be. The shape of the yield curve today is very much a function of global central bank activity – negative rates and quantitative easing. This changes the mechanics of the yield curve with respect to pure growth and inflation signals, but it does suggest a capitulation in investor confidence in the ability of central banks to reflate global growth or prevent another downturn. And that's not a good confidence signal.

  3. Kelly McBride:

    I have heard and seen surveys that suggest when some news consumers see the word ‘anonymous’ attached to information, they are assuming that the journalist doesn’t actually know who provided the information – which is not true at all, i think that journalists could do a lot more to educate the public about how they handle leaked information so that the public might have a little more faith in the journalistic process.

  4. Georges Benjamin:

    What I would suggest what we do is, we look and we imagine some possible futures of where the disease might go, and then we plan the transition according to those various scenarios.

  5. Giorgi Gogia:

    They threaten to marginalize and discredit critical voices in the country. This threat is real, under the disguise of transparency, the latest statements by the Georgian authorities strongly suggest that if adopted, the law will be weaponized to further stigmatize and penalize independent groups, media and critical voices in the country.

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