Disrecommending

Part of speech: verb

Definitions

1. Advising someone against a course of action, product, or choice by speaking in opposition to it
2. Urging others to avoid or reject a particular option, rather than endorsing it
3. Speaking out against something and counselling people not to choose or use it

Etymology: "Disrecommending" is the present participle and gerund of "disrecommend," which is formed from the prefix "dis-" and "recommend." The prefix "dis-" carries a reversing or negating sense, so "disrecommend" means to advise against something or to recommend that it be avoided, the opposite of the older verb it grows from. "Recommend" itself comes from Latin "recommendare," meaning "to commit to someone's care or keeping," built from "re-" and "commendare," "to entrust." The sense of praising a thing for its merits developed later, and the verb carries that broader idea of endorsing or advising. The "-ing" ending turns the verb into a participle or gerund, so the word can describe an ongoing act of advising against something or name that act itself.