Definition of Suggest

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Suggest

To introduce indirectly to the thoughts; to cause to be thought of, usually by the agency of other objects.

To propose with difference or modesty; to hint; to intimate; as, to suggest a difficulty.

To seduce; to prompt to evil; to tempt.

To inform secretly.

To make suggestions; to tempt.

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Suggest Quotations

Statistics suggest that when customers complain, business owners and managers ought to get excited about it. The complaining customer represents a huge opportunity for more business.
Zig Ziglar

There are certain pursuits which, if not wholly poetic and true, do at least suggest a nobler and finer relation to nature than we know. The keeping of bees, for instance.
Henry David Thoreau

Autobiographies are only useful as the lives you read about and analyze may suggest to you something that you may find useful in your own journey through life.
Eleanor Roosevelt

As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.
Albert Camus

Her body calculated to a millimeter to suggest a bud yet guarantee a flower.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

If you don't do it my way, I suggest you commit suicide.
Josef Albers

Victims suggest innocence. And innocence, by the inexorable logic that governs all relational terms, suggests guilt.
Susan Sontag

We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century. We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century - for several centuries.
H. G. Wells

I was never too keen on the British music press. They've called us a supermarket hype, and they used to suggest that we didn't write our own songs.
Freddie Mercury

If you are a dog and your owner suggests that you wear a sweater suggest that he wear a tail.
Fran Lebowitz

Suggest Translations

suggest in Afrikaans is bied, aandui
suggest in Dutch is aanwijzen, aangeven, aanduiden
suggest in Finnish is ehdottaa, viitata
suggest in German is andeuten, nahelegen, empfehlen
suggest in Latin is innuo, adjicio
suggest in Portuguese is sugira

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