Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to recommend
Participle: recommended
Gerund: recommending
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | recommend |
| you | recommend |
| he;she;it | recommends |
| we | recommend |
| you | recommend |
| they | recommend |
Perfect
| I | have recommended |
| you | have recommended |
| he;she;it | has recommended |
| we | have recommended |
| you | have recommended |
| they | have recommended |
Past
| I | recommended |
| you | recommended |
| he;she;it | recommended |
| we | recommended |
| you | recommended |
| they | recommended |
Pluperfect
| I | had recommended |
| you | had recommended |
| he;she;it | had recommended |
| we | had recommended |
| you | had recommended |
| they | had recommended |
Future
| I | will recommend |
| you | will recommend |
| he;she;it | will recommend |
| we | will recommend |
| you | will recommend |
| they | will recommend |
Future Perfect
| I | will have recommended |
| you | will have recommended |
| he;she;it | will have recommended |
| we | will have recommended |
| you | will have recommended |
| they | will have recommended |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | recommend |
| you | recommend |
| he;she;it | recommend |
| we | recommend |
| you | recommend |
| they | recommend |
Perfect
| I | have recommended |
| you | have recommended |
| he;she;it | have recommended |
| we | have recommended |
| you | have recommended |
| they | have recommended |
Imperfect
| I | recommended |
| you | recommended |
| he;she;it | recommended |
| we | recommended |
| you | recommended |
| they | recommended |
Pluperfect
| I | had recommended |
| you | had recommended |
| he;she;it | had recommended |
| we | had recommended |
| you | had recommended |
| they | had recommended |
Conditional
Present
| I | would recommend |
| you | would recommend |
| he;she;it | would recommend |
| we | would recommend |
| you | would recommend |
| they | would recommend |
Perfect
| I | would have recommended |
| you | would have recommended |
| he;she;it | would have recommended |
| we | would have recommended |
| you | would have recommended |
| they | would have recommended |
Imperative
| you | recommend |
| we | Let's recommend |
| you | recommend |
Verbs conjugated like 'recommend'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'recommend'
commend,
recommence,
unrecommend,
c-command,
command,
comment,
discommend,
disrecommend,
reamend,
recement,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
- to offer an opinion, as worthy or expedient to be followed
- admonish, advise, advocate, counsel, suggest, warn
- approve
- sanction, condone, endorse, advocate, commend, uphold, applaud, extol
- suggest
- advise, prescribe, counsel, urge
Antonyms
- approve
- disapprove, reject, disavow, disown
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. 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”).
2. 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)). See: Middle English '
recommenden', French '
recommander'.
Sample Sentences
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There I remained until I got better: suffering, whenever I was recommended to eat anything, an amount of anguish only second to that which is said to be endured by the apparently drowned, in the process of restoration to life. One gentleman on board had a letter of [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] this cell, in solitary confinement, and working every day at his trade of shoemaking, this man remained nearly two years. His health beginning to fail at the expiration of that time, the surgeon recommended that he should work occasionally in the garden; and as he liked the notion very much, he went about this new occupation with great cheerfulness.
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] is accommodated, and the extraordinary improvements on the pattern which are squirted and dabbled upon it in every direction, do not admit of being described. I will merely observe, that I strongly recommend all strangers not to look at the floor; and if they happen to drop anything, though it be their purse, not to pick it up with an ungloved hand on any account.
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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The trader had arrived at that stage of Christian and political perfection which has been recommended by some preachers and politicians of the north, lately, in which he had completely overcome every humane weakness and prejudice. His heart was exactly where yours, sir, and mine could be brought, [...]
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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[...] two a week in the season, it was advisable to collect opinions in reference to the comparative safety of the vessels bound that way, then lying in the river. One called the Messenger was the best recommended. She had been advertised to start positively, every day for a fortnight or so, and had not gone yet, nor did her captain seem to have any very fixed intention on the subject. But this is the [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] berths in it, opening out of the ladies ’ cabin. There was, undoubtedly, something satisfactory in this ‘location, ’ inasmuch as it was in the stern, and we had been a great many times very gravely recommended to keep as far aft as possible, ‘because the steamboats generally blew up forward. ’ Nor was this an unnecessary caution, as the occurrence and circumstances of more than one such fatality during [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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“ Wal, there might be something in that ar, if it warnt for his character; but I can show recommends from his master and others, to prove he is one of your real pious,—the most humble, prayin, pious crittur ye ever did see. Why, he's been called a preacher in them parts he came from. ”
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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[ 1 ] _Hamlet_, Act I, scene 1, lines 115-116 And, therefore, their all hitting upon this is a striking fact in pneumatology, which we recommend to the attention of spiritual media generally.
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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[...] by her own request, baptized, and became a member of the Christian church in the place; and showed so much intelligence, activity and zeal, and desire to do good in the world, that she was at last recommended, and approved as a missionary to one of the stations in Africa; and we have heard that the same activity and ingenuity which, when a child, made her so multiform and restless in her developments, is [...]
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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[...] advancing light and civilization would certainly live down. But, since the legislative act of 1850, when she heard, with perfect surprise and consternation, Christian and humane people actually recommending the remanding escaped fugitives into slavery, as a duty binding on good citizens,—when she heard, on all hands, from kind, compassionate and estimable people, in the free states of the North, [...]
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)