Synonyms of suggestion

suggestion

noun

səg-ˈjes-chən 

1

as in indication

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 & Similar Words

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

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• solution
• answer

2

as in proposal

something which is presented for consideration

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

Synonyms & Similar Words

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

3

as in hint

an almost imperceptible sign of something

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

Synonyms & Similar Words

• hint
• touch
• glimmer
• flicker
• breath
• trace
• sign
• evidence
• whiff
• indication
• tang
• scent
• wind
• intimation
• inkling
• mark

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• saturation
• permeation
• pervasion

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of suggestion

The story pivots on the mother’s suggestion that Sanghee move to the island and learn the business in order to eventually take it over. — Richard Brody, New Yorker, 25 Sep. 2026

The Cuban government, predictably, did not take the report’s suggestions kindly. — Nora Gámez Torres, Miami Herald, 25 Sep. 2026

Slemmer’s mother, May Slemmer Martinez, supports Pike’s execution and rejects the suggestion that Pike’s age or traumatic upbringing should spare her. — Christina Coulter, PEOPLE, 25 Sep. 2026

Click on the fancy form, submit your suggestions and stay tuned. — Tyler Estep, AJC.com, 23 Sep. 2026