recommending

Giving positive advice

Recommending is suggesting something as worthy or suitable.

You might be recommending a restaurant to a friend, recommending a candidate for a job, or recommending a course of action to a committee.

The word implies endorsement based on knowledge or judgment: I'm recommending this book to everyone I know.

advising

suggesting

Offering an idea indirectly

proposingPutting forth formally
counselingProfessional guidance for problems
guidingLeading toward destination

advising · urging · encouraging · coaching · mentoring · consulting · directing · instructing · steering · prompting

endorsing

vouching

Affirming another's credibility

backingAid or sponsorship
supportingBearing or sustaining
promotingActively supporting or furthering

championing · approving · sanctioning · certifying · validating · affirming · accrediting · attesting · commending · praising

suggesting

proposing

Putting forth formally

offeringSomething presented or given
submittingGiving in or delivering
presentingDisplaying to an audience

floating · advancing · tendering · proffering · positing · volunteering · prescribing · specifying · indicating · flagging

Categories

kind actshelping, aiding, assisting, donating, sharing
service tasksserving, greeting, seating, booking, checking in
speech actsspeaking, talking, uttering, pronouncement, locution
guidingadvising, directing, guiding, instructing, leading
glorificationglorifying, glorification, exalting, exaltation, idolizing
communicatingtalking, speaking, telling, sharing, expressing

Opposites

endorsement/advocacy

recommendingdiscouraging

Causing loss of confidence

opposing · dissuading · deterring · condemning · disparaging

Family

recommend, commend, recommended, recommendation, commendable, recommends, recommendations, commended, commends

Familiarity: Top 50,000
Profile: Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Positive · Everyday, not technical · Rated G