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Recommend vs Discommend - What's the difference?

recommend | discommend | Antonyms |

Discommend is a antonym of recommend.



As verbs the difference between recommend and discommend

is that recommend is to bestow commendation on; to represent favourably; to suggest, endorse or encourage as an appropriate choice while discommend is to show disapproval of something, find fault with.

recommend

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • To bestow commendation on; to represent favourably; to suggest, endorse or encourage as an appropriate choice.
    • The board recommends Philips, given his ample experience in similar positions.
  • To make acceptable; to attract favor to.
  • To advise, propose, counsel favorably
    • The therapist recommends resting the mind and exercising the body.
  • (archaic) To commit, confide to another's care, confidence or acceptance, with favoring representations
    • ''A medieval oblate's parents recommended the boy for life to God and the monastery

    Usage notes

    * This is a catenative verb that takes the gerund (-ing) . See

    Synonyms

    * See also

    Antonyms

    * discourage * disapprove * oppose

    Derived terms

    * recommendable * recommendatory * recommended * recommender

    Related terms

    * recommendation

    Anagrams

    * English reporting verbs

    discommend

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To show disapproval of something, find fault with.
  • To speak dissuasively of, to advise against.
  • *, New York, 2001, p.218:
  • *:Savonarola discommends goat's flesh, and so doth Bruerinus […], calling it a filthy beast, and rammish […].

    • Antonyms

    * (show disapproval of) commend * (speak dissuasively of) recommend