Meaning of suggestion | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Something suggested (with subsequent adposition being for)
2. The act of suggesting
3. The act of suggesting.
   uncountable
4. Something implied, which the mind is liable to take as fact
5. Something implied, which the mind is liable to take as fact.
   countable
6. 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
7. 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.
   countable, uncountable
8. Information, insinuation, speculation, as opposed to a sworn testimony and evidence
9. Information, insinuation, speculation, as opposed to a sworn testimony and evidence.
   countable

Equivalents

Examples

“make a suggestion”

“I have a small suggestion for fixing this: try lifting the left side up a bit.”

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

“Suggestion often works better than explicit demand.”

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

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