suggestion

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 Synonyms of suggestion clue, cue, indication, inkling, intimation, lead, hintWords Related to suggestion 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, symptomNear Antonyms of suggestion 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 Synonyms of suggestion offer, proffer, proposition, proposalWords Related to suggestion 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 Synonyms of suggestion breath, flicker, glimmer, hint, tang, touch, trace, whiffWords Related to suggestion inkling, intimation, scent, wind; evidence, indication, mark, signNear Antonyms of suggestion permeation, pervasion, saturation