recommend

recommend is a 9-letter English word with 6 senses as transitive verb and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 16 in Scrabble and 20 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

9 letters · Scrabble 16 · Words With Friends 20 · 6 senses

Definitions

1. transitive verb. 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.
2. transitive verb. To make acceptable; to attract favor to.
3. transitive verb. To commit; to give in charge; to commend.
4. verb. make attractive or acceptable

   "Honesty recommends any person"

5. verb. push for something

   "The travel agent recommended strongly that we not travel on Thanksgiving Day"

   Synonyms: advocate, urge

6. verb. express a good opinion of

   Synonyms: commend

Synonyms

advocate, urge, commend

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in recommend:

commender

Common word forms

recommends, recommended, recommender, recommending, recommendable

Words from these letters

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