suggest

v.

1. To make a suggestion

   submit, advise, recommend; see propose 1.

2. To bring to mind

   hint, imply, infer, intimate, insinuate; see also hint.

suggest implies a putting of something into the mind either intentionally, as by way of a proposal I suggest you leave now, or unintentionally, as through association of ideas the smell of ether suggests a hospital; imply stresses a putting into the mind of something inherent in a word, remark, action, or situation, but not openly expressed, and suggests the need for inference the answer implied a refusal, her novels imply a belief that good triumphs over evil; hint connotes faint or indirect suggestion that is, however, intended to be understood he hinted that he would come; intimate suggests a making known obliquely by a very slight hint she only dared to intimate her feelings; insinuate implies the subtle hinting of something disagreeable or of that which one lacks the courage to say outright are you insinuating that I am dishonest?