Invite vs. Suggest — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Invite and Suggest
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Invite
Make a polite, formal, or friendly request to (someone) to go somewhere or to do something
She invited Patrick to sit down
We were invited to a dinner at the Embassy
Suggest
Put forward for consideration
I suggest that we wait a day or two
‘Maybe you ought to get an expert,’ she suggested
Ruth suggested a holiday
Invite
An invitation
No one turns down an invite to one of Mickey's parties
Suggest
Cause one to think that (something) exists or is the case
Finds of lead coffins suggested a cemetery north of the river
The temperature wasn't as tropical as the bright sunlight may have suggested
Invite
To ask for the presence or participation of
Invite friends to dinner.
Invite writers to a conference.
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Suggest
To offer for consideration or action; propose
Suggest things for children to do.
Suggested that we take a walk.
Invite
To request formally
Invited us to be seated.
Suggest
To express or say indirectly
The police officer seemed to be suggesting that the death was not an accident.
Invite
To welcome; encourage
Invite questions from the audience.
Suggest
To make evident indirectly; intimate or imply
A silence that suggested disapproval.
Invite
To tend to bring on; provoke
"Divisions at home would invite dangers from abroad" (John Jay).
Suggest
To bring or call to mind by logic or association; evoke
A cloud that suggests a mushroom.
A ringlike symbol suggesting unity.
Invite
To entice; tempt.
Suggest
To serve as or provide a motive for; prompt or demand
Such a crime suggests apt punishment.
Invite
An invitation.
Suggest
(transitive) To imply but stop short of explicitly stating (something).
Are you suggesting that I killed my wife?
Invite
(transitive) To ask for the presence or participation of someone or something.
We invited our friends round for dinner.
Suggest
(transitive) To cause one to suppose (something); to bring to one's mind the idea (of something).
The name "hamburger" suggests that hamburgers originated from Hamburg.
Invite
(transitive) To request formally.
I invite you all to be seated.
Suggest
(transitive) To explicitly mention (something) as a possibility for consideration, often to recommend it
He suggests that we celebrate with dinner at Bellissimo.
He suggests our celebrating with dinner at Bellissimo.
The guidebook suggests that we visit the local cathedral, which is apparently beautiful.
Invite
(transitive) To encourage.
I always invite criticism of my definitions.
Wearing that skimpy dress, you are bound to invite attention.
Suggest
To seduce; to prompt to evil; to tempt.
Invite
(transitive) To allure; to draw to; to tempt to come; to induce by pleasure or hope; to attract.
Suggest
To introduce indirectly to the thoughts; to cause to be thought of, usually by the agency of other objects.
Some ideas . . . are suggested to the mind by all the ways of sensation and reflection.
Invite
(informal) An invitation.
Suggest
To propose with difference or modesty; to hint; to intimate; as, to suggest a difficulty.
Invite
To ask; to request; to bid; to summon; to ask to do some act, or go to some place; esp., to ask to an entertainment or visit; to request the company of; as, to invite to dinner, or a wedding, or an excursion.
So many guests invite as here are writ.
I invite his Grace of Castle Rackrent to reflect on this.
Suggest
To seduce; to prompt to evil; to tempt.
Knowing that tender youth is soon suggested.
Invite
To allure; to draw to; to tempt to come; to induce by pleasure or hope; to attract.
To inveigle and invite the unwary sense.
Shady groves, that easy sleep invite.
There no delusive hope invites despair.
Suggest
To inform secretly.
Invite
To give occasion for; as, to invite criticism.
Suggest
To make suggestions; to tempt.
And ever weaker grows through acted crime,Or seeming-genial, venial fault,Recurring and suggesting still.
Invite
To give invitation.
Suggest
Make a proposal, declare a plan for something
Invite
A colloquial expression for invitation;
He didn't get no invite to the party
Suggest
Imply as a possibility;
The evidence suggests a need for more clarification
Invite
Increase the likelihood of;
Ask for trouble
Invite criticism
Suggest
Drop a hint; intimate by a hint
Invite
Invite someone to one's house;
Can I invite you for dinner on Sunday night?
Suggest
Suggest the necessity of an intervention; in medicine;
Tetracycline is indicated in such cases
Invite
Give rise to a desire by being attractive or inviting;
The window displays tempted the shoppers
Suggest
Call to mind or evoke
Invite
Ask someone in a friendly way to do something
Invite
Have as a guest;
I invited them to a restaurant
Invite
Ask to enter;
We invited the neighbors in for a cup of coffee
Invite
Request the participation or presence of;
The organizers invite submissions of papers for the conference
Invite
Express willingness to have in one's home or environs;
The community warmly received the refugees
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