Suggestion

Quick meaning: Suggestion is a noun meaning (countable) Something suggested (with subsequent adposition being for).

Meaning

(countable) Something suggested (with subsequent adposition being for).

More Meanings

1. (uncountable) The act of suggesting.
2. (countable, psychology) Something implied, which the mind is liable to take as fact.
3. (law, countable) Information, insinuation, speculation, as opposed to a sworn testimony and evidence.
4. The act of exercising control over a hypnotised subject by communicating some belief or impulse by means of words or gestures; the idea so suggested.

Example Sentences

make a suggestion

Suggestion often works better than explicit demand.

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

Traffic signs seem to be more of a suggestion than an order.

Word Forms

• suggestions

Synonyms for suggestion

Depending on context, synonyms include hint, incitement, proposal, trace, proposition, mesmerism.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include hint, proposition, proffer, prompting, trace, mesmerism.

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