Verb: suggest su'jest
- Make a proposal, declare a plan for something
"The consultant suggested a complete overhaul of the system";
- propose, advise
- Imply as a possibility
"The evidence suggests a need for more clarification";
- intimate
- Make an indirect suggestion; intimate by a hint
"Her expression suggested she knew more";
- hint
- Call to mind
"this remark suggested sadness";
- evoke, conjure up, conjure
Derived forms: suggested, suggesting, suggests
Type of: convey, declare, evince [formal], express, imply, pronounce, show
Encyclopedia: Suggest