Disrecommend

Quick meaning: Disrecommend is a verb meaning (transitive) To recommend the opposite or negation of; to advise against.

Meaning

(transitive) To recommend the opposite or negation of; to advise against.

Example Sentences

Near-synonyms: deprecate, discourage, pooh-pooh, discommend (rare)

You will find it [a Bloody Mary made with tequila] a splendid pick-me-up, and throw-me-down, and jump-on-me. Strongly disrecommended for mornings after.

Take for example a transaction that is performed without any defection. A transaction peer may still defame the other one by disrecommending it to a third entity. […] Under certain circumstances, the defamed entity has to pro-actively defend itself by disrecommending the defamer.

[P]ut the Caſe that the Nobleman of the ancienter Family does not indeed diſgrace his Dignity, but adds nothing to it; having nothing extraordinary to recommend him or diſrecommend him: Whereas the other, by his perſonal Merit, has rais'd himſelf to an equal Dignity. Which of the two in this Suppoſition deſerves the greater Eſteem?

Word Forms

• disrecommends
• disrecommending
• disrecommended

Synonyms for disrecommend

Depending on context, synonyms include unrecommend, deprecate, discourage, pooh-pooh, discommend.

Antonyms for disrecommend

Common opposites include recommend, endorse, encourage, support.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include unrecommend, disadvise, discommend, counteradvise, discounsel, discourage.

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