verb · 9 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot
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Received-Pronunciation:/səˈd͡ʒɛst/
General-American:/sə(ɡ)ˈd͡ʒɛst/
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rhymes with -ɛst
CMU ARPABET:S AH0 JH EH1 S T
Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
1
verb
Meaning 1
To imply but stop short of explicitly stating (something).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
Examples
Are you suggesting that I killed my wife?
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: point
Antonyms: none provided
2
verb
Meaning 2
To cause one to suppose (something); to bring to one's mind the idea (of something).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
Examples
The name "hamburger" suggests that hamburgers originated from Hamburg.
, Book II, Chapter III Some ideas [...] are suggested to the mind by all the ways of sensation and reflection.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
3
verb
Meaning 3
To explicitly mention (something) as a possibility for consideration, often to recommend it.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
Examples
This meeting venue was suggested to us by our boss.
He suggests that we celebrate with dinner at Bellissimo. He suggests our celebrating with dinner at Bellissimo.
The guidebook suggested that we visit the local cathedral, so that's what we did.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: venture, hazard
Antonyms: none provided
4
verb
Meaning 4
To seduce; to prompt to evil; to tempt.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete, transitive
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
5
verb
Meaning 5
make a proposal, declare a plan for something
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
the senator proposed to abolish the sales tax
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: propose, advise
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: declare
Narrower terms: recommend, urge, advocate, advance, throw out, proposition, feed back, submit, state, put forward, posit, move, make a motion
6
verb
Meaning 6
drop a hint; intimate by a hint
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: hint
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: convey
Narrower terms: intimate, adumbrate, insinuate, clue in, allude, touch, advert
7
verb
Meaning 7
suggest the necessity of an intervention; in medicine