Word Meanings - SUPPOSITION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

under, a substitution, fr. supponere, suppositium, to put under, to substitute. The word has the meaning corresponding to suppose. See 1. The act of supposing, laying down, imagining, or considering as true or existing, what is known not to be

Additional info about word: SUPPOSITION

under, a substitution, fr. supponere, suppositium, to put under, to substitute. The word has the meaning corresponding to suppose. See 1. The act of supposing, laying down, imagining, or considering as true or existing, what is known not to be true, or what is not proved. 2. That which is supposed; hypothesis; conjecture; surmise; opinion or belief without sufficient evidence. This is only an infallibility upon supposition that if a thing be true, it is imposible to be false. Tillotson. He means are in supposition. Shak.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of SUPPOSITION)

• Conjecture guest
• divination
• hypothesis
• theory
• notion
• surmise
• supposition
• Myth
• Fable
• legend
• parable
• fiction
• allegory
• fabulous story
• fabrication
• Presumption
• Anticipation
• probability
• assumption
• understanding
• condition
• concession
• forwardness
• arrogance
• audacity
• boldness
• Theory
• Speculation
• doctrine
• scheme
• system
• plea
• Thought
• Reflection
• reasoning
• cogitation
• view
• sentiment
• meditation
• conception
• idea
• opinion
• judgment
• conceit
• fancy
• design
• purpose
• intention
• deliberation
• care
• provision

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of SUPPOSITION)

• Chance
• risk
• hazard
• revoke
• Miscalculate
• venture
• stake

Related words: (words related to SUPPOSITION)

• JUDGMENT
  The final award; the last sentence. Note: Judgment, abridgment, acknowledgment, and lodgment are in England sometimes written, judgement, abridgement, acknowledgement, and lodgement. Note: Judgment is used adjectively in many self-explaining
• CHANCELLERY
  Chancellorship. Gower.
• HAZARDIZE
  A hazardous attempt or situation; hazard. Herself had run into that hazardize. Spenser.
• OPINIONATOR
  An opinionated person; one given to conjecture. South.
• 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
• REVOKER
  One who revokes.
• INTENTIONALITY
  The quality or state of being intentional; purpose; design. Coleridge.
• DESIGNATE
  Designated; appointed; chosen. Sir G. Buck.
• PURPOSELESS
  Having no purpose or result; objectless. Bp. Hall. -- Pur"pose*less*ness, n.
• STORY-WRITER
  1. One who writes short stories, as for magazines. 2. An historian; a chronicler. "Rathums, the story-writer." 1 Esdr. ii. 17.
• SYSTEMATIZE
  To reduce to system or regular method; to arrange methodically; to methodize; as, to systematize a collection of plants or minerals; to systematize one's work; to systematize one's ideas. Diseases were healed, and buildings erected, before medicine
• REASONING
  1. The act or process of adducing a reason or reasons; manner of presenting one's reasons. 2. That which is offered in argument; proofs or reasons when arranged and developed; course of argument. His reasoning was sufficiently profound. Macaulay.
• VENTURESOME
  Inclined to venture; not loth to run risk or danger; venturous; bold; daring; adventurous; as, a venturesome boy or act. -- Ven"ture*some*ly, adv. -- Ven"ture*some*ness, n.
• CONDITIONALITY
  The quality of being conditional, or limited; limitation by certain terms.
• 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
• CONJECTURER
  One who conjectures. Hobbes.
• THOUGHT
  imp. & p. p. of Think.
• REASONLESS
  1. Destitute of reason; as, a reasonless man or mind. Shak. 2. Void of reason; not warranted or supported by reason; unreasonable. This proffer is absurd and reasonless. Shak.
• 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.
• SENTIMENTALLY
  In a sentimental manner.
• INEFFABLENESS
  The quality or state of being ineffable or unutterable; unspeakableness.
• SUPERCONCEPTION
  Superfetation. Sir T. Browne.
• DISVENTURE
  A disadventure. Shelton.
• SUPERREFLECTION
  The reflection of a reflected image or sound. Bacon.
• VORTEX THEORY
  The theory, advanced by Thomson on the basis of investigation by Helmholtz, that the atoms are vortically moving ring-shaped masses (or masses of other forms having a similar internal motion) of a homogeneous, incompressible, frictionless fluid.
• BERTILLON SYSTEM
  A system for the identification of persons by a physical description based upon anthropometric measurements, notes of markings, deformities, color, impression of thumb lines, etc.
• CONTINENTAL SYSTEM
  The system of commercial blockade aiming to exclude England from commerce with the Continent instituted by the Berlin decree, which Napoleon I. issued from Berlin Nov. 21, 1806, declaring the British Isles to be in a state of blockade, and British