recommended

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌɹɛkəˈmɛndɪd/
• Hyphenation: rec‧om‧mend‧ed
• Rhymes: -ɛndɪd

• Audio (US):

  (file)

Adjective

recommended (comparative more recommended, superlative most recommended)

1. That one recommends (often by a person, community, or authoritative body).

   recommended daily allowance

   strongly recommended

   widely recommended

   He bought the book because it was highly recommended.

Derived terms

• nonrecommended
• unrecommended

Noun

recommended (uncountable)

1. (Internet slang, especially YouTube, usually with possessive determiner) The list of auto-recommended content (most often videos) presented to a particular user by a website's (or app's) algorithm.

   Synonyms: suggested, suggestions, recommendations, feed

   This vid is gold. How did you find it?
   It was just in my recommended.

Usage notes

• Almost always mentioned in grammatical possession by an individual person (because it is generally one person on one account viewing at a time) and therefore directly preceded by a singular possessive determiner: my, your sg, his, her, or their sg, and when unspecified someone's, one's or whose.

Verb

recommended

1. simple past and past participle of recommend