suppose
| 1. |
(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?" |
|
Synonyms: say |
|
Related Words: speculate |
|
| 2. |
(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" |
|
Synonyms: guess, imagine, reckon, think |
|
Related Words: anticipate, divine, expect, suspect |
|
| 3. |
(verb) to believe especially on uncertain or tentative grounds: "Scientists supposed that large dinosaurs lived in swamps." |
|
Synonyms: conjecture, hypothecate, hypothesize, speculate, theorise, theorize |
|
Related Words: anticipate, construct, develop, expect, explicate, formulate, reconstruct, retrace |
|
|