recommend Definition

recommend
verb recommended, recommending

1. To suggest as being suitable to be accepted, chosen, etc; to commend.

Example: I can recommend a good restaurant
Thesaurus: support, sanction, commend, advocate, extol, compliment, applaud, celebrate, praise, acclaim; Antonym: disapprove, veto.
2. To make acceptable, desirable or pleasing.

Example: an applicant with very little to recommend him
tr & intr
3. To advise, eg a particular course of action.

Example: recommended the first course of action
Thesaurus: suggest, prescribe, urge, counsel, advise.

Derivative: recommendable
adj

Derivative: recommendably
adverb

Derivative: recommendation

The act of recommending.
Thesaurus: advocacy, endorsement, blessing, praise, approval, sanction, commendation; Antonym: disapproval, veto.

Something that recommends;

A testimonial, especially a letter of recommendation.

Something that is recommended.

Derivative: recommendatory
adj

Derivative: recommender
noun

Etymology: 14c: from Latin commendare to commend.