Usually means: Propose an idea for consideration.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. suggest: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. suggest: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. suggest: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. suggest: Collins English Dictionary
  5. suggest: Vocabulary.com
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  7. suggest: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
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  9. suggest: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
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  11. suggest: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. suggest: Dictionary.com
  13. suggest: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Suggest: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Suggest: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. suggest: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
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  18. suggest: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. suggest: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
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  24. suggest: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)

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  2. suggest: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
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Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
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Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. suggest: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
▸ verb:  (transitive) To imply but stop short of explicitly stating (something).
▸ verb:  (transitive) To cause one to suppose (something); to bring to one's mind the idea (of something).
▸ verb:  (transitive) To explicitly mention (something) as a possibility for consideration, often to recommend it
▸ verb:  (obsolete, transitive) To seduce; to prompt to evil; to tempt.

Similar:
hint, advise, indicate, propose, intimate, evoke, paint a picture, recommend, consider, think, more...

Opposite:
deny, contradict, dissuade, discourage, refute

Types:
subliminal, covert, overt, subtle, blatant, subtext, double entendre, more...

Phrases:
suggest itself, strongly suggest, one i would suggest, suggest that, to suggest, more...

Colors:
    mint,     lavender,     peach,     sky blue,     coral,     sage,     blush,     periwinkle,     teal,     mauve



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Similar:
hint, advise, indicate, propose, intimate, evoke, paint a picture, recommend, consider, think, more...

Opposite:
deny, contradict, dissuade, discourage, refute

Types:
subliminal, covert, overt, subtle, blatant, subtext, double entendre, more...

Phrases:
suggest itself, strongly suggest, one i would suggest, suggest that, to suggest, would seem to suggest, subtly suggest, opposite of suggest, i suggest, to suggest an idea, to suggest or hint subtly, more...

Colors:
    mint,     lavender,     peach,     sky blue,     coral,     sage,     blush,     periwinkle,     teal,     mauve



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