Difference between Advise and Suggest

What is the difference between Advise and Suggest?

Advise as a verb is to give advice to; to offer an opinion, as worthy or expedient to be followed; to counsel; to warn. while Suggest as a verb is to imply but stop short of saying explicitly.

Advise

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To give advice to; to offer an opinion, as worthy or expedient to be followed; to counsel; to warn. To give information or notice to; to inform; — with of before the thing communicated. To consider, to deliberate.

Example sentence: Women will never be as successful as men because they have no wives to advise them.

Suggest

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To imply but stop short of saying explicitly.To make one suppose; cause one to suppose (something).To ask for without demanding.To recommend.

Example sentence: When women reassert their relationship with the wildish nature, they are gifted with a permanent and internal watcher, a knower, a visionary, an oracle, an inspiratrice, an intuitive, a maker, a creator, an inventor, and a listener who guide, suggest, and urge vibrant life in the inner and outer world.

We hope you now know whether to use Advise or Suggest in your sentence.

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