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SUPPOSE
think, opine, suppose, imagine, reckon, guess
(verb) expect, believe, or suppose; “I imagine she earned a lot of money with her new novel”; “I thought to find her in a bad state”; “he didn’t think to find her in the kitchen”; “I guess she is angry at me for standing her up”
speculate, theorize, theorise, conjecture, hypothesize, hypothesise, hypothecate, suppose
(verb) to believe especially on uncertain or tentative grounds; “Scientists supposed that large dinosaurs lived in swamps”
presuppose, suppose
(verb) require as a necessary antecedent or precondition; “This step presupposes two prior ones”
presuppose, suppose
(verb) take for granted or as a given; suppose beforehand; “I presuppose that you have done your work”
suppose, say
(verb) express a supposition; “Let us say that he did not tell the truth”; “Let’s say you had a lot of money--what would you do?”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Verb
suppose (third-person singular simple present supposes, present participle supposing, simple past and past participle supposed)
(transitive) To take for granted; to conclude, with less than absolute supporting data; to believe.
(transitive) To theorize or hypothesize.
(transitive) To imagine; to believe; to receive as true.
(transitive) To require to exist or to be true; to imply by the laws of thought or of nature.
(transitive) To put by fraud in the place of another.
Synonyms
• assume (1,2)
• See also suppose
Source: Wiktionary
Sup*pose", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Supposed; p. pr. & vb. n. Supposing.] Etym: [F. supposer; pref. sub- under + poser to place; -- corresponding in meaning to L. supponere, suppositum, to put under, to substitute, falsify, counterfeit. See Pose.]
1. To represent to one's self, or state to another, not as true or real, but as if so, and with a view to some consequence or application which the reality would involve or admit of; to imagine or admit to exist, for the sake of argument or illustration; to assume to be true; as, let us suppose the earth to be the center of the system, what would be the result Suppose they take offence without a cause. Shak. When we have as great assurance that a thing is, as we could possibly, supposing it were, we ought not to make any doubt of its existence. Tillotson.
2. To imagine; to believe; to receive as true. How easy is a bush supposed a bear! Shak. Let not my lord suppose that they have slain all the young men, the king's sons; for Amnon only is dead. 2 Sam. xiii. 32.
3. To require to exist or to be true; to imply by the laws of thought or of nature; as, purpose supposes foresight. One falsehood always supposes another, and renders all you can say suspected. Female Quixote.
4. To put by fraud in the place of another. [Obs.]
Syn.
– To imagine; believe; conclude; judge; consider; view; regard; conjecture; assume.
Sup*pose", v. i.
Definition: To make supposition; to think; to be of opinion. Acts ii. 15.
Sup*pose", n.
Definition: Supposition. [Obs.] Shak. "A base suppose that he is honest." Dryden.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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(verb) grasp with the mind or develop an understanding of; “did you catch that allusion?”; “We caught something of his theory in the lecture”; “don’t catch your meaning”; “did you get it?”; “She didn’t get the joke”; “I just don’t get him”
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