Word Meanings - RECOMMEND - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. To commend to the favorable notice of another; to commit to another's care, confidence, or acceptance, with favoring representations; to put in a favorable light before any one; to bestow commendation on; as, he recommended resting the mind

Additional info about word: RECOMMEND

1. To commend to the favorable notice of another; to commit to another's care, confidence, or acceptance, with favoring representations; to put in a favorable light before any one; to bestow commendation on; as, he recommended resting the mind and exercising the body. Mæcenas recommended Virgil and Horace to Augustus, whose praises . . . have made him precious to posterity. Dryden. 2. To make acceptable; to attract favor to. A decent boldness ever meets with friends, Succeeds, and e'en a stranger recommends. Pope. 3. To commit; to give in charge; to commend. Paul chose Silas and departed, being recommended by the brethren unto the grace of God. Acts xv. 40

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of RECOMMEND)

• Commend
• Praise
• laud
• extol
• approve
• recommend
• encourage
• applaud
• eulogize
• Ingratiate
• Recommend
• insinuate
• Prescribe
• Enjoin
• order
• impose
• indicate
• decree
• dictate
• Suggest
• Hint
• propose
• allude to
• intimate

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of RECOMMEND)

• Blame
• censure
• discommend
• reprove

Related words: (words related to RECOMMEND)

• COMMENDATOR
  One who holds a benefice in commendam; a commendatary. Chalmers.
• APPROVEDLY
  So as to secure approbation; in an approved manner.
• SUGGESTER
  One who suggests. Beau. & Fl.
• COMMENDER
  One who commends or praises.
• SUGGEST
  1. To introduce indirectly to the thoughts; to cause to be thought of, usually by the agency of other objects. Some ideas . . . are suggested to the mind by all the ways of sensation and reflection. Locke. 2. To propose with difference or modesty;
• PRAISEWORTHINESS
  The quality or state of being praiseworthy.
• INTIMATE
  corresponding to the compar. interior cf. F. intime. The form 1. Innermost; inward; internal; deep-seated; hearty. "I knew from intimate impulse." Milton. 2. Near; close; direct; thorough; complete. He was honored with an intimate and immediate
• EXTOLMENT
  Praise. Shak.
• SUGGESTRESS
  A woman who suggests. "The suggestress of suicides." De Quincey.
• PROPOSER
  1. One who proposes or offers anything for consideration or adoption. 2. A speaker; an orator. Shak.
• ENCOURAGER
  One who encourages, incites, or helps forward; a favorer. The pope is . . . a great encourager of arts. Addison.
• SUGGESTION
  Information without oath; an entry of a material fact or circumstance on the record for the information of the court, at the death or insolvency of a party. (more info) 1. The act of suggesting; presentation of an idea. 2. That which is suggested;
• CENSURER
  One who censures. Sha.
• PRAISER
  1. One who praises. "Praisers of men." Sir P. Sidney. 2. An appraiser; a valuator. Sir T. North.
• BLAME
  LL. also to blame, fr. Gr. to speak ill to slander, to blaspheme, fr. evil speaking, perh, for ; injury + a saying, fr. to 1. To censure; to express disapprobation of; to find fault with; to reproach. We have none to blame but ourselves.
• BLAMER
  One who blames. Wyclif.
• COMMENDATARY
  One who holds a living in commendam.
• APPROVEMENT
  a confession of guilt by a prisoner charged with treason or felony, together with an accusation of his accomplish and a giving evidence against them in order to obtain his own pardon. The term is no longer in use; it corresponded to what is now
• RECOMMENDATORY
  Serving to recommend; recommending; commendatory. Swift.
• APPLAUD
  1. To show approval of by clapping the hands, acclamation, or other significant sign. I would applaud thee to the very echo, That should applaud again. Shak. 2. To praise by words; to express approbation of; to commend; to approve. By the gods,
• APPRAISER
  One who appraises; esp., a person appointed and sworn to estimate and fix the value of goods or estates.
• IMBORDER
  To furnish or inclose with a border; to form a border of. Milton.
• DISAPPROVE
  1. To pass unfavorable judgment upon; to condemn by an act of the judgment; to regard as wrong, unsuitable, or inexpedient; to censure; as, to disapprove the conduct of others. 2. To refuse official approbation to; to disallow; to decline
• SEXTOLET
  A double triplet; a group of six equal notes played in the time of four.
• MISORDER
  To order ill; to manage erroneously; to conduct badly. Shak.
• ACCORDER
  One who accords, assents, or concedes.