suppose
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English supposen, borrowed from Old French supposer, equivalent to prefix sub- (“under”) + poser (“to place”); corresponding in meaning to Latin supponere (“to put under, to substitute, falsify, counterfeit”), suppositum. See pose.
Inflected forms:
form: supposes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: supposing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: supposed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: supposed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To take for granted; to conclude, with less than absolute supporting data; to believe.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
transitive
examples: I suppose we all agree that this is the best solution.
I won't be back before midday, I don't suppose.
I don't suppose you could lend me a euro, could you?
We're a place setting short, there'll be four of us - always supposing your sis really comes.
Mum, can go to the park yet? ~ Suppose you did your homework first.
‘No,’ said Luke, grinning at her. ‘You're not dull enough! […] What about the kid's clothes? I don't suppose they were anything to write home about, but didn't you keep anything? A bootee or a bit of embroidery or anything at all?’
gloss: To theorize or hypothesize.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Suppose that A implies B and B implies C. Then A implies C.
Of all the queer collections of humans outside of a crazy asylum, it seemed to me this sanitarium was the cup winner. […] When you're well enough off so's you don't have to fret about anything but your heft or your diseases you begin to get queer, I suppose.
Just what is supposed to be wrong with the pursuit of fame is not always made clear. Plato disapproved of competition for praise on the grounds that it would tempt the great to bend to the will of the crowd. It is hard to argue with that, and social degradation remains a fear.
gloss: To imagine; to believe; to receive as true.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: How easy is a bush supposed a bear!
Let not my lord suppose that they have slain all the young men, the king's sons; for Amnon only is dead.
As a political system democracy seems to me extraordinarily foolish,[…]. My servant is, so far as I am concerned, welcome to as many votes as he can get.[…]I do not suppose that it matters much in reality whether laws are made by dukes or cornerboys, but I like, as far as possible, to associate with gentlemen in private life.
gloss: To reckon to be, to account or esteem as.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
examples: [He] keeps you from the honors of a Queene,
Being ſuppoſde his worthleſſe Concubine.
gloss: To require to exist or to be true; to imply by the laws of thought or of nature.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Purpose supposes foresight.
One falsehood always supposes another, and renders all you can say suspected.
gloss: To put by fraud in the place of another; to substitute fraudulently.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
examples: A Water-monster, called the Nickard, does enter by night the chamber, where a woman is brought to bed, and stealeth when they are all sleeping, the new-born child and supposeth another in its place, which child growing up is like a monster and commonly dumb.
... that they when the queen is in child-birth, be present and warily observe lest the la-dies should privily counterfeit the inheritable sex, by supposing some other male, when the true birth is female,[…]
Synonyms: arread
assume
fancy
conject
conjecture
daresay
dope
foreguess
go out on a limb
guess
guesstimate
hunch
hypothesize
hypotheticate
imagine
infer
overhope
posit
postulate
presume
reckon
speculate
suppose
surmise
suspect
take a stab at
take for granted
take something as read
theorize
ween
Related words: supposition
Derived words: I don't suppose
missuppose
supposable
supposal
supposedly
supposed to
supposure
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