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suppose::verb | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | presuppose |
| Type of | presume, take for granted, assume |
| Has types | premise, posit, postulate, premiss |
I presuppose that you have done your work.
suppose::verb | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | conjecture, hypothecate, hypothesise, hypothesize, speculate, theorise, theorize |
| Type of | expect, anticipate |
| Has types | formulate, reconstruct, retrace, construct, explicate, develop |
| Derivation | supposal, supposition |
Scientists supposed that large dinosaurs lived in swamps.
suppose::verb | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | presuppose |
| Type of | imply |
This step presupposes two prior ones.
Examples of suppose
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I suppose my biggest disappointment with the show came from the musical numbers.
From the stltoday.com
Suppose you decide to take a class that has nothing to do with your current job.
From the foxbusiness.com
Suppose, for example, that a school has 2,000 white students and nine Hispanics.
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If there continues to be no jobs and high unemployment, I suppose I'll stay put.
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So I suppose that taught me how to cope with managing a limited amount of money.
From the telegraph.co.uk
America's campaign against these gangs is less organised than one might suppose.
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I suppose that should give me some idea of just how difficult they are to spell.
From the telegraph.co.uk
I suppose there's always that dynamic, of the older brother looking out for you.
From the telegraph.co.uk
I suppose the only ones unhappy are the scofflaws that received the citatations.
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- 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?"
- Think: 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: to believe especially on uncertain or tentative grounds; "Scientists supposed that large dinosaurs lived in swamps"
- Presuppose: take for granted or as a given; suppose beforehand; "I presuppose that you have done your work"
- Presuppose: require as a necessary antecedent or precondition; "This step presupposes two prior ones"
- (supposal) assumption: a hypothesis that is taken for granted; "any society is built upon certain assumptions"
- (supposal) supposition: the cognitive process of supposing
- Supposition theory was a branch of medieval logic that was probably aimed at giving accounts of issues similar to modern accounts of reference, plurality, tense, and modality, from within an Aristotelian context. ...
- To take for granted; to conclude, with less than absolute supporting data; to believe; To theorize or hypothesize
