Synonyms for suggestion
səgˈdʒɛs tʃən, sə-sug·ges·tion

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1. suggestionnoun

   Something suggested.

   Synonyms:
   proposal

2. suggestionnoun

   The act of suggesting.

   Suggestion often works better than explicit demand.

   Synonyms:
   proposal

3. suggestionnoun

   Something implied, which the mind is liable to take as fact.

   He's somehow picked up the suggestion that I like peanuts.

   Synonyms:
   proposal

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1. suggestion

   A suggestion (Latin sub, under, and gero, bring) brings something before the mind less directly than by formal or explicit statement, as by a partial statement, an incidental allusion, an illustration, a question, or the like. Suggestion is often used of an unobtrusive statement of one's views or wishes to another, leaving consideration and any consequent action entirely to his judgment, and is hence, in many cases, the most respectful way in which one can convey his views to a superior or a stranger. A suggestion may be given unintentionally, and even unconsciously, as when we say an author has "a suggestive style." An intimation is a suggestion in brief utterance, or sometimes by significant act, gesture, or token, of one's meaning or wishes; in the latter case it is often the act of a superior; as, God in his providence gives us intimations of his will. A hint is still more limited in expression, and is always covert, but frequently with good intent; as, to give one a hint of danger or of opportunity. Insinuation and innuendo are used in the bad sense; an insinuation is a covert or partly veiled injurious utterance, sometimes to the very person attacked; an innuendo is commonly secret as well as sly, as if pointing one out by a significant nod (Latin in, in, to, and nuo, nod).

   Synonyms:
   hint, implication, innuendo, insinuation, intimation

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1. suggestionnoun

   an idea that is suggested

   "the picnic was her suggestion"

   Synonyms:
   mesmerism, hint, prompting, hypnotism, proposition, trace, proffer

2. suggestion, proposition, proffernoun

   a proposal offered for acceptance or rejection

   "it was a suggestion we couldn't refuse"

   Synonyms:
   proffer, trace, proposal, mesmerism, hint, hypnotism, prompting, proposition

3. trace, hint, suggestionnoun

   a just detectable amount

   "he speaks French with a trace of an accent"

   Synonyms:
   lead, jot, touch, steer, proposition, prompting, shadow, ghost, intimation, tincture, soupcon, clue, wind, speck, hint, trace, tip, pinch, vestige, proffer, mite, mesmerism, tinge, confidential information, breath, tracing, hypnotism

4. suggestion, promptingnoun

   persuasion formulated as a suggestion

   Synonyms:
   proffer, trace, prompt, mesmerism, hint, hypnotism, prompting, proposition

5. suggestionnoun

   the sequential mental process in which one thought leads to another by association

   Synonyms:
   mesmerism, hint, prompting, hypnotism, proposition, trace, proffer

6. hypnotism, mesmerism, suggestionnoun

   the act of inducing hypnosis

   Synonyms:
   proffer, trace, mesmerism, prompting, hypnotism, hint, proposition

Matched Categories

1. • Higher Cognitive Process
   • Idea
   • Influence
   • Persuasion
   • Proposal

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. suggestionnoun

   Synonyms:
   hint, intimation, insinuation, allusion

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1. suggestionnoun

   Synonyms:
   intimation, hint, allusion, proposal, instance, insinuation

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1. List of paraphrases for "suggestion":

   proposal, tip, hint, suggestions, recommendation, suggested, insinuation, idea, screentip, motion, proposed, recommendations, proposition

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How to use suggestion in a sentence?

1. European Council:

   This would give the EU and member states the legal means, by adopting appropriate urgent measures, to ensure effective vaccine production and supply for our population, i made this suggestion to the (European) Commission President von der Leyen so that we can explore this avenue imminently.

2. Boris Johnson:

   Four of the five photographs relied upon by the Committee are photographs from the official No. 10 photographer. A suggestion that we would have held events which were ‘obviously’ contrary to the Rules and Guidance, and allowed those events to be immortalised by the official photographer is implausible.

3. Peter Strzok:

   The suggestion that I, in some dark chamber somewhere in the FBI would somehow cast aside all of these procedures, all of these safeguards, and somehow be able to do this, is astounding to me, it simply couldn't happen. And the proposition that that is going on, that it might occur anywhere in the FBI, deeply corrodes what the FBI is in American society, the effectiveness of their mission, and it is deeply destructive.

4. Sunny Hostin:

   Although the FBI does have some statistics, most people know that those statistics can't even be counted upon, because they are self-reported, so my suggestion has been all along that we need mandatory reporting from our law enforcement agencies around the country and I think that the number of officer shootings involving young black males is actually much higher than is even self-reported. That's something that needs to be part of the conversation.

5. Elizabeth Loftus:

   Even traumatic experiences can be subjected to post-event suggestion that can exaggerate, distort or change the memory.