RECOMMEND

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does recommend mean? 

• RECOMMEND (verb)
  The verb RECOMMEND has 3 senses:

1. push for something

2. express a good opinion of

3. make attractive or acceptable

  Familiarity information: RECOMMEND used as a verb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RECOMMEND (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they recommend    ... he / she / it recommends   
Past simple: recommended   
Past participle: recommended   
-ing form: recommending   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Push for something

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

advocate; recommend; urge

Context example:

The travel agent recommended strongly that we not travel on Thanksgiving Day

Hypernyms (to "recommend" is one way to...):

advise; propose; suggest (make a proposal, declare a plan for something)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "recommend"):

prescribe (recommend as beneficial)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Somebody ----s that CLAUSE

Derivation:

recommendation (something (as a course of action) that is recommended as advisable)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Express a good opinion of

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

commend; recommend

Hypernyms (to "recommend" is one way to...):

praise (express approval of)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s that CLAUSE

Sentence example:

Sam and Sue recommend the movie

Derivation:

recommendation (something (as a course of action) that is recommended as advisable)

recommendation (something that recommends (or expresses commendation of) a person or thing as worthy or desirable)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Make attractive or acceptable

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Context example:

Honesty recommends any person

Hypernyms (to "recommend" is one way to...):

alter; change; modify (cause to change; make different; cause a transformation)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s something

 Context examples 

"She had seemed to recommend and praise him!"

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

“I recommended the shrubbery to Fanny as the driest place,” said Sir Thomas.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Who recommended you to come here?

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

"Jo can," said Meg, glad to recommend her sister.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

“I will not say that I recommend it,” observed Traddles. “I think it right to suggest it. No more.”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Well, if he have nothing else to recommend him, he will be a treasure at Highbury.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Ah, but I was recommended to you.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I should certainly recommend you to return to your practice.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Your doctor may recommend antacids or other medicines.

(Hiatal Hernia, NIH: National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases)

At the recommended dose, the effect is primarily on T1 relaxation time, and produces an increase in signal intensity.

(Gadoversetamide, NCI Thesaurus)