Suggest Definition

səg-jĕst, sə-jĕst

suggested, suggesting, suggests

verb

suggested, suggesting, suggests

To mention as something to think over, act on, etc.; bring to the mind for consideration.

Webster's New World

To express or say indirectly.

The police officer seemed to be suggesting that the death was not an accident.

American Heritage

To propose as a possibility.

To suggest a course of study.

Webster's New World

To bring or call to mind through association of ideas.

Objects suggested by the shapes of clouds.

Webster's New World

To show indirectly; imply; intimate.

A silence that suggested agreement.

Webster's New World

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Origin of Suggest

Coined based on Latin suggestus, perfect passive participle of suggerō (“I carry or bring under, furnish, supply, excite, advise, suggest"), from sub (“under") + gerō (“I bear, carry").

From Wiktionary
Latin suggerere suggest- sub- up sub– gerere to carry

From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition