SUGGESTS Synonyms

• make a proposal, declare a plan for something

• present for consideration, examination, criticism, etc.

• propose or intend

• put forward; nominate for appointment to an office or for an honor or position

• ask (someone) to marry you

• give advice to

• inform (somebody) of something

• make a proposal, declare a plan for something

• make a more or less disguised reference to

• call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses)

• evoke or provoke to appear or occur

• deduce (a principle) or construe (a meaning)

• summon into action or bring into existence, often as if by magic

• call to mind

• express or state indirectly

• suggest as a logically necessary consequence; in logic

• have as a logical consequence

• suggest that someone is guilty

• have as a necessary feature

• introduce or insert (oneself) in a subtle manner

• give to understand

• someone to whom private matters are confided

• marked by close acquaintance, association, or familiarity

• concerning things deeply private and personal

• having or fostering a warm or friendly and informal atmosphere

• having mutual interests or affections; of established friendship

• used euphemistically to refer to the genitals

• involved in a sexual relationship

• innermost or essential

• thoroughly acquainted through study or experience

• give to understand

• imply as a possibility

• an idea that is suggested

• a proposal offered for acceptance or rejection

• a just detectable amount

• persuasion formulated as a suggestion

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

• the act of inducing hypnosis

• call to mind