Dictionary Entry
suggest
suggest is a 7-letter English word with 10 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To introduce indirectly to the thoughts; to cause to be thought of, usually by the agency of other objects. Face value is 9 in Scrabble and 12 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 9 · Words With Friends 12 · 10 senses
Definitions
- 1transitive verb
To introduce indirectly to the thoughts; to cause to be thought of, usually by the agency of other objects.
- 2transitive verb
To propose with difference or modesty; to hint; to intimate; as, to suggest a difficulty.
- 3transitive verb
To seduce; to prompt to evil; to tempt.
- 4transitive verb
To inform secretly.
- 5intransitive verb
To make suggestions; to tempt.
- 6verb
make a proposal, declare a plan for something
"the senator proposed to abolish the sales tax"
- 7verb
drop a hint; intimate by a hint
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- 8verb
suggest the necessity of an intervention; in medicine
"Tetracycline is indicated in such cases"
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- 9verb
call to mind
"this remark evoked sadness"
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- 10verb
imply as a possibility
"The evidence suggests a need for more clarification"
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