Suggestion — Meaning, Definition & Synonyms

Suggestion (noun) — Senses, Synonyms & Antonyms

1. a slight or indirect pointing to something (as a solution or explanation)

   "if you don't want to give the suggestion that you're evading the truth, you must look your questioner in the eye"

   similar: clue, cue, hint, indication, inkling, intimation, lead
   related: breath, flicker, glimmer, glimpse, mention, scent, whiff, wind, hunch, idea, inspiration, notion, allusion, implication, inference, innuendo, insinuation, denotation, evidence, guidepost, key, mark, overtone, pointer, sign, signal, telltale, token, assistance, nod, prompt, tip, tip-off, wink, feeling, foreboding, intuition, premonition, presentiment, suspicion, augury, foreshadower, foretaste, harbinger, omen, portent, prefigurement, presage, symptom
   near: answer, solution

2. something which is presented for consideration

   "no one had any better suggestions, so as usual we spent the afternoon at the basketball court"

   similar: offer, proffer, proposal, proposition
   related: counteroffer, counterproposal, countersuggestion, feeler, overture, motion, advancement, nomination, recommendation, bid, presentation, submission, submittal, tender, arrangement, game, ground plan, layout, line, plan, plot, project, strategy, system, conception, idea, notion, theory, thought

3. an almost imperceptible sign of something

   "we took care to avoid so much as even a suggestion of impropriety"

   similar: breath, flicker, glimmer, hint, tang, touch, trace, whiff
   related: inkling, intimation, scent, wind, evidence, indication, mark, sign
   near: permeation, pervasion, saturation