recommend

About 9.79 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. verb To bestow commendation on; to represent favorably; to suggest, endorse or encourage as an appropriate choice.

   The board recommends Philips, given his ample experience in similar positions.

2. verb To make acceptable; to attract favor to.

   A city that has much to recommend it.

3. verb To advise, propose, counsel favorably.

   The therapist recommends resting the mind and exercising the body.

4. verb To commit, to confide to another's care, confidence or acceptance, with favoring representations.

   A medieval oblate's parents recommended the boy for life to God and the monastery.

5. noun A recommendation.

Similar words

commend advocate urge recommendation advisable advise advice advised propose proposal

Often followed by

that the to it a this you them him

Word family

had a lot to recommend her had a lot to recommend him had a lot to recommend it had a lot to recommend me had a lot to recommend them had a lot to recommend us had a lot to recommend you had everything to recommend her had everything to recommend him had everything to recommend it