Suggest vs. Recommend — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Suggest and Recommend
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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
Recommend
To praise or commend to another as being worthy or desirable; endorse
Recommended him for the job.
Recommended a car instead of an SUV.
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
Recommend
To make attractive or acceptable
This book has much to recommend it.
Suggest
To offer for consideration or action; propose
Suggest things for children to do.
Suggested that we take a walk.
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Recommend
To advise or counsel
She recommended that we be on time.
Suggest
To express or say indirectly
The police officer seemed to be suggesting that the death was not an accident.
Recommend
To commit to the charge of another; entrust
"By these our letters we would have the safety of his person ... recommended to your care" (John Milton).
Suggest
To make evident indirectly; intimate or imply
A silence that suggested disapproval.
Recommend
To give advice or counsel
"recommended against signing an international agreement" (Time).
Suggest
To bring or call to mind by logic or association; evoke
A cloud that suggests a mushroom.
A ringlike symbol suggesting unity.
Recommend
(transitive) To bestow commendation on; to represent favourably; to suggest, endorse or encourage as an appropriate choice.
The board recommends Philips, given his ample experience in similar positions.
Suggest
To serve as or provide a motive for; prompt or demand
Such a crime suggests apt punishment.
Recommend
(transitive) To make acceptable; to attract favor to.
A city that has much to recommend it.
Suggest
(transitive) To imply but stop short of explicitly stating (something).
Are you suggesting that I killed my wife?
Recommend
(transitive) To advise, propose, counsel favorably
The therapist recommends resting the mind and exercising the body.
My therapist recommended that I rest the mind and exercise the body.
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.
Recommend
To commit, confide to another's care, confidence or acceptance, with favoring representations
A medieval oblate's parents recommended the boy for life to God and the monastery.
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.
Recommend
To commend to the favorable notice of another; to commit to another's care, confidence, or acceptance, with favoring representations; to put in a favorable light before any one; to bestow commendation on; as, he recommended resting the mind and exercising the body.
Mæcenas recommended Virgil and Horace to Augustus, whose praises . . . have made him precious to posterity.
Suggest
To seduce; to prompt to evil; to tempt.
Recommend
To make acceptable; to attract favor to.
A decent boldness ever meets with friends,Succeeds, and e'en a stranger recommends.
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.
Recommend
To commit; to give in charge; to commend.
Paul chose Silas and departed, being recommended by the brethren unto the grace of God.
Suggest
To propose with difference or modesty; to hint; to intimate; as, to suggest a difficulty.
Recommend
Push for something;
The travel agent recommended strongly that we not travel on Thanksgiving Day
Suggest
To seduce; to prompt to evil; to tempt.
Knowing that tender youth is soon suggested.
Recommend
Express a good opinion of
Suggest
To inform secretly.
Recommend
Make attractive or acceptable;
Honesty recommends any person
Suggest
To make suggestions; to tempt.
And ever weaker grows through acted crime,Or seeming-genial, venial fault,Recurring and suggesting still.
Suggest
Make a proposal, declare a plan for something
Suggest
Imply as a possibility;
The evidence suggests a need for more clarification
Suggest
Drop a hint; intimate by a hint
Suggest
Suggest the necessity of an intervention; in medicine;
Tetracycline is indicated in such cases
Suggest
Call to mind or evoke
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