Dictionary Entry
propose
propose is a 7-letter English word with 12 senses as verb, intransitive verb, and noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To set forth. Face value is 11 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
7 letters · Scrabble 11 · Words With Friends 13 · 12 senses
Definitions
- 1verb
To set forth.
- 2verb
To offer for consideration, discussion, acceptance, or adoption; as, to propose terms of peace; to propose a question for discussion; to propose an alliance; to propose a person for office.
- 3verb
To set before one's self or others as a purpose formed; hence, to purpose; to intend.
- 4intransitive verb
To speak; to converse.
- 5intransitive verb
To form or declare a purpose or intention; to lay a scheme; to design; as, man proposes, but God disposes.
- 6intransitive verb
To offer one's self in marriage.
- 7noun
Talk; discourse.
- 8verb
present for consideration, examination, criticism, etc.
"He proposed a new plan for dealing with terrorism"
"She proposed a new theory of relativity"
Synonyms
- 9verb
propose or intend
"I aim to arrive at noon"
- 10verb
make a proposal, declare a plan for something
"the senator proposed to abolish the sales tax"
- 11verb
ask (someone) to marry you
"he popped the question on Sunday night"
"she proposed marriage to the man she had known for only two months"
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- 12verb
put forward; nominate for appointment to an office or for an honor or position
"The President nominated her as head of the Civil Rights Commission"
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