'Suppose' definitions:
Definition of 'suppose'
From: WordNet
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?" [syn: suppose, say]
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" [syn: think, opine, suppose, imagine, reckon, guess]
verb
To believe especially on uncertain or tentative grounds; "Scientists supposed that large dinosaurs lived in swamps" [syn: speculate, theorize, theorise, conjecture, hypothesize, hypothesise, hypothecate, suppose]
verb
Take for granted or as a given; suppose beforehand; "I presuppose that you have done your work" [syn: presuppose, suppose]
verb
Require as a necessary antecedent or precondition; "This step presupposes two prior ones" [syn: presuppose, suppose]
Definition of 'Suppose'
From: GCIDE
- Suppose \Sup*pose"\, n. Supposition. [Obs.] --Shak. "A base suppose that he is honest." --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Suppose'
From: GCIDE
- Suppose \Sup*pose"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Supposed; p. pr. & vb. n. Supposing.] [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? [1913 Webster]
- Suppose they take offence without a cause. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To imagine; to believe; to receive as true. [1913 Webster]
- How easy is a bush supposed a bear! --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To require to exist or to be true; to imply by the laws of thought or of nature; as, purpose supposes foresight. [1913 Webster]
- One falsehood always supposes another, and renders all you can say suspected. --Female Quixote. [1913 Webster]
- 4. To put by fraud in the place of another. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- Syn: To imagine; believe; conclude; judge; consider; view; regard; conjecture; assume. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Suppose'
From: GCIDE
- Suppose \Sup*pose"\, v. i. To make supposition; to think; to be of opinion. --Acts ii. 15. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'suppose'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- account,
- account as,
- adjudge,
- adjudicate,
- allegorize,
- allow,
- allude to,
- assume,
- be afraid,
- be judicious,
- believe,
- bring to mind,
- coin,
- conceit,
- conceive,
- conceptualize,
- conclude,
- concoct,
- conjecture,
- connote,
- consider,
- count,
- create,
- daresay,
- deduce,
- deem,
- divine,
- dream,
- dream up,
- entail,
- esteem,
- estimate,
- exercise judgment,
- expect,
- experience imaginatively,
- express an opinion,
- fabricate,
- fancy,
- fantasize,
- feel,
- fictionalize,
- form an opinion,
- gather,
- grant,
- guess,
- hatch,
- have a hunch,
- have an idea,
- have an impression,
- have an inkling,
- have the idea,
- hint,
- hold,
- hold as,
- hypothesize,
- ideate,
- imagine,
- implicate,
- imply,
- import,
- infer,
- insinuate,
- intimate,
- invent,
- involve,
- judge,
- let,
- let be,
- look upon as,
- maintain,
- mean,
- mean to say,
- mold,
- opine,
- originate,
- perhaps,
- pine,
- point indirectly to,
- posit,
- postulate,
- prefigure,
- presume,
- presuppose,
- presurmise,
- pretend,
- produce,
- provisionally accept,
- reckon,
- regard,
- repute,
- say,
- set down as,
- shape,
- speculation,
- suggest,
- supposition,
- surmise,
- suspect,
- take,
- take for,
- take for granted,
- take it,
- take to be,
- theorize,
- think,
- think likely,
- think of,
- think up,
- trow,
- understand,
- venture to say,
- view as,
- ween