recommend
Syllables: rec·om·mendUK/ˌɹɛkəˈmɛnd/
recommend verb: to bestow commendation on; to represent favorably; to suggest, endorse or encourage as an appropriate choice.
Verb
recommend (third-person singular simple present recommends, present participle recommending, simple past and past participle recommended)
- 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.
- Synonyms:
- commend
- To make acceptable; to attract favor to.
- A city that has much to recommend it.
- To advise, propose, counsel favorably.
- The therapist recommends resting the mind and exercising the body.
- My therapist recommended that I rest the mind and exercise the body.
- 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.
Noun
recommend (plural recommends)
- A recommendation.
- "I'm glad to have a recommend from that quarter. Airheart's skipper of the San Jose now. […]"1896 November – 1897 May, Rudyard Kipling, “Captains Courageous”, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Company, published 1897, →OCLC
recommend meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
recommend in Hindi
- to commend to the favorable notice of another
- सिफ़ारिश करना sifāriś karnā
recommend in Tamil
- to suggest or endorse someone as appropriate choice
- பரிந்துரை செய் parinturai cey
recommend in Marathi
- शिफारस करणे, शिफारस करा
recommend in Urdu
- to commend to the favorable notice of another
- سفارش کرنا sifāriś karnā, مشورہ دینا maśvirā denā
More languagesFewer languages
- recommend in Bengali
- সুপারিশ করা, পরামর্শ করা
- recommend in Telugu
- సిఫార్సు చేయండి, సిఫార్సు చెయ్యడానికి
- recommend in Malayalam
- ശിപാർശ ചെയ്യുക, ഗുണമായി പറയുക, നിർദ്ദേശിക്കുക
- recommend in Kannada
- ಒಲವುತೋರು, ಮೆಚ್ಚುಗೆ ತಿಳಿಸು, ತಿಳುವಳಿಕೆ ನೀಡು, ಹೇಳಿಸು
- recommend in Punjabi
- ਸਿਫਾਰਸ਼ ਕਰਨ ਲਈ, ਸਿਫ਼ਾਰਸ਼ ਕਰਨ ਲਈ, ਸਿਫਾਰਸ਼ ਕਰੋ
- recommend in Gujarati
- ભલામણ કરો, ભલામણ કરવી, ભલામણ કરવા
- recommend in Odia
- ସୁପାରିଶ କରନ୍ତୁ
- recommend in Arabic
- وَصَّى waṣṣā, أَوْصَى ʔawṣā, نَصَحَ naṣaḥa, نصح naṣaḥ
- recommend in Persian
- توصیه کردن towsiye kardan
- recommend in Thai
- แนะนำ nɛ́-nam
- recommend in Vietnamese
- giới thiệu, đề nghị
- recommend in Myanmar
- ထောက်ခံ htaukhkam
Examples of recommend in a sentence
- You yourselves won’t eat at that restaurant. Why are you recommending it to us?
- I should ask the green thumb next door what she recommends for my droopy daffodils.
- For new players, I recommend maining the dagger and using the axe as a backup weapon.
Synonyms of recommend
Antonyms
Forms of recommend
| Verb | |
|---|---|
| third-person singular present | recommends |
| present participle | recommending |
| past participle | recommended |
| past | recommended |
| Noun | |
| plural | recommends |
Origin of recommend
From Middle English recommenden, from Old French recommender (compare French recommander), from Latin re- + commendāre (“to commend, commit; to recommend”), from con- + mandāre (“commit, intrust, enjoin”), from manus (“hand, handwriting, power”) + dare (“to give; to offer or render”). Compare typologically Bulgarian препоръчам (preporăčam), Serbo-Croatian препоручити, Slovene priporočiti, Czech doporučit, Slovak odporučiť (the same meaning); Russian поручи́ться (poručítʹsja), пору́ка (porúka), поручи́тельство (poručítelʹstvo) (close meaning), all related to Proto-Slavic *rǫka (Bulgarian ръка (răka), Russian рука́ (ruká)).
Words formed from recommend
Words that rhyme with recommend
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- spend
- suspend
- trend
- ascend
- offend
- pretend
- unbend
- commend
- tend
- amend
- contend
- depend
- lend
- distend
- impend
- rend
- shend
- subtend
- tight end
- upend
- wend
- append
- befriend
- blend
- pend
- resend
- transcend
- abend
- comprehend
- entend
- fend
- obtend
- perpend
- portend
- unfriend
- vend
- weekend
- when'd
- blende
- defriend
- disrecommend
- emend
- expend
- forfend
- forspend
- freakend
- genetic dead end
- heaven forfend
Questions about recommend
- What does recommend mean?
- Recommend means to bestow commendation on; to represent favorably; to suggest, endorse or encourage as an appropriate choice.
- What is recommend in Hindi?
- Recommend in Hindi is सिफ़ारिश करना (sifāriś karnā). See Recommend meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is recommend?
- Recommend can be a verb or a noun.
- How do you pronounce recommend?
- Recommend is pronounced /ˌɹɛkəˈmɛnd/ (UK).
- What is the past tense of recommend?
- The past tense of recommend is recommended.
Words near recommend in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: recommend (page history and authors); recommend (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); recommend (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); recommend (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); recommend (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); recommend (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); recommend (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); recommend (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); recommend (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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