Word Meanings - SUPPOSE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

corresponding in meaning to L. supponere, suppositum, to put under, 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

Additional info about word: SUPPOSE

corresponding in meaning to L. supponere, suppositum, to put under, 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. Syn. -- To imagine; believe; conclude; judge; consider; view; regard; conjecture; assume.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of SUPPOSE)

• Assume
• Take
• appropriate
• arrogate
• wear
• exhibit
• postulate
• suppose
• presume
• usurp
• claim
• pretend
• feign
• affect
• Conceive
• Imagine
• apprehend
• believe
• design
• think
• understand
• Deem
• Judge
• estimate
• consider
• conceive
• Guess
• Conjecture
• surmise
• divine
• suspect
• fancy
• imagine
• Surmise
• fabricate
• deem

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of SUPPOSE)

• Forego
• waive
• disclaim
• abjure
• disavow
• abandon
• concede
• surrender
• repudiate
• Computation
• calculation
• inference
• reckoning
• proof
• deduction

Related words: (words related to SUPPOSE)

• THINKING
  Having the faculty of thought; cogitative; capable of a regular train of ideas; as, man is a thinking being. -- Think"ing*ly, adv.
• DESIGN
  drawing, dessein a plan or scheme; all, ultimately, from L. designare to designate; de- + signare to mark, mark out, signum mark, sign. See 1. To draw preliminary outline or main features of; to sketch for a pattern or model; to delineate; to trace
• EXHIBITION
  The act of administering a remedy. (more info) 1. The act of exhibiting for inspection, or of holding forth to view; manifestation; display. 2. That which is exhibited, held forth, or displayed; also, any public show; a display of works of art,
• APPROPRIATENESS
  The state or quality of being appropriate; peculiar fitness. Froude.
• RECKON
  reckon, G. rechnen, OHG. rahnjan), and to E. reck, rake an implement; the original sense probably being, to bring together, count together. 1. To count; to enumerate; to number; also, to compute; to calculate. The priest shall reckon to him the
• DESIGNATE
  Designated; appointed; chosen. Sir G. Buck.
• AFFECTATIONIST
  One who exhibits affectation. Fitzed. Hall.
• CONSIDERINGLY
  With consideration or deliberation.
• EXHIBITIONER
  One who has a pension or allowance granted for support. A youth who had as an exhibitioner from Christ's Hospital. G. Eliot.
• RECKONER
  One who reckons or computes; also, a book of calculation, tables, etc., to assist in reckoning. Reckoners without their host must reckon twice. Camden.
• DISAVOWANCE
  Disavowal. South.
• SURMISE
  surmis, to impose, accuse; sur + mettre to put, set, L. 1. A thought, imagination, or conjecture, which is based upon feeble or scanty evidence; suspicion; guess; as, the surmisses of jealousy or of envy. double honor gain From his surmise proved
• COMPUTATION
  1. The act or process of computing; calculation; reckoning. By just computation of the time. Shak. By a computation backward from ourselves. Bacon. 2. The result of computation; the amount computed. Syn. -- Reckoning; calculation; estimate;
• CONJECTURER
  One who conjectures. Hobbes.
• AFFECTION
  Disease; morbid symptom; malady; as, a pulmonary affection. Dunglison. 7. The lively representation of any emotion. Wotton. 8. Affectation. "Spruce affection." Shak. 9. Passion; violent emotion. Most wretched man, That to affections
• DISAVOWMENT
  Disavowal. Wotton.
• DISAVOWER
  One who disavows.
• UNDERSTANDINGLY
  In an understanding manner; intelligibly; with full knowledge or comprehension; intelligently; as, to vote upon a question understandingly; to act or judge understandingly. The gospel may be neglected, but in can not be understandingly disbelieved.
• AFFECTIBILITY
  The quality or state of being affectible.
• APPREHEND
  of, seize; prae before + -hendere ; akin to Gr. 1. To take or seize; to take hold of. We have two hands to apprehended it. Jer. Taylor. 2. Hence: To take or seize by legal process; to arrest; as, to apprehend a criminal. 3. To take hold of with
• FOREGUESS
  To conjecture.
• RECLAIMABLE
  That may be reclaimed.
• MISJUDGE
  To judge erroneously or unjustly; to err in judgment; to misconstrue.
• MISCOMPUTATION
  Erroneous computation; false reckoning.
• OVERAFFECT
  To affect or care for unduly. Milton.
• MISAFFECT
  To dislike.
• SELF-REPROOF
  The act of reproving one's self; censure of one's conduct by one's own judgment.
• HIGH-PROOF
  1. Highly rectified; very strongly alcoholic; as, high-proof spirits. 2. So as to stand any test. "We are high-proof melancholy." Shak.
• UNCONSIDERED
  Not considered or attended to; not regarded; inconsiderable; trifling. A snapper-up of unconsidered trifles. Shak.
• PREJUDGE
  To judge before hearing, or before full and sufficient examination; to decide or sentence by anticipation; to condemn beforehand. The committee of council hath prejudged the whole case, by calling the united sense of both houses of Parliament" a