RECOMMEND

recommend

(verb) make attractive or acceptable; “Honesty recommends any person”

recommend, urge, advocate

(verb) push for something; “The travel agent recommended strongly that we not travel on Thanksgiving Day”

commend, recommend

(verb) express a good opinion of

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Verb

recommend (third-person singular simple present recommends, present participle recommending, simple past and past participle recommended)

(transitive) To bestow commendation on; to represent favourably; to suggest, endorse or encourage as an appropriate choice.

(transitive) To make acceptable; to attract favor to.

(transitive) To advise, propose, counsel favorably

(transitive, archaic) To commit, confide to another's care, confidence or acceptance, with favoring representations

Usage notes

• This is a catenative verb that takes the gerund (-ing). See English catenative verbs

Synonyms

• See also advise

Antonyms

• deprectate

• disrecommend

• discourage

• disapprove

• oppose

Anagrams

• commender

Source: Wiktionary

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Rec`om*mend" (rk`m*mnd"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Recommended; p. pr. & vb. n. Recommending.] Etym: [Pref. re- + commend: cf. F. recommander.]

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 .

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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