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supposedadjective appearing to be true on the basis of evidence that may or may not be confirmedthis new computer program is a supposed improvement over the old one apparent, assumed, evident, ostensible, ostensive, presumed, prima facie, putative, reputed, seeming demonstrable, external, outward, superficial, visibleconceivable, plausible, possible, supposablelikely, probableclear, distinct, manifest, obvious, plaindeceptive, delusive, delusory, illusive, illusory, imaginarymisleading, speciousfake, faked, feigned, phony(also phoney), pretended, pseudo, put-onalleged, claimed, professed, purported, so-called hidden, inapparentimplausible, impossible, improbable, inconceivable, unlikelyactual, authenticated, confirmed, corroborated, established, genuine, real, substantiated, sure, valid, validated, verified supposedverbpast tense of supposeto decide the size, amount, number, or distance of (something) without actual measurementif we suppose a minimum profit of $10,000 from the charity auction, we should be able to pay for the family's medical expenses calculated, called, conjectured, estimated, figured, gauged(also gaged), guessed, judged, made, placed, put, reckoned concluded, deduced, extrapolated, gathered, inferred, reasoned, understood calibrated, measured, scaledcomputed, worked out to form an opinion from little or no evidencewhat do you suppose he's going to do with the prize money he won? assumed, conjectured, daresaid, guessed, imagined, presumed, speculated, surmised, suspected, suspicioned(chiefly dialect) concluded, deduced, gathered, inferredhypothecated, hypothesized, theorizedbelieved, conceived, expected, judged, reckoned(chiefly dialect), thought, took demonstrated, documented, established, proved, substantiated, validatedascertained, determined, found out, learned to have as an opinionvoters wrongly supposed that the new mayor would be opposed to letting hazardous waste be transported through the city allowed(chiefly Southern & Midland), believed, conceived, considered, deemed, esteemed, felt, figured, guessed, held, imagined, judged, reckoned(chiefly dialect), thought regarded, viewedaccepted, perceiveddepended, relied, trustedassumed, presumed, presupposed, surmisedconcluded, deduced, inferred distrusted, doubted, mistrusted, questioned, suspecteddisbelieved, discredited, rejected to take as true or as a fact without actual proofhad always supposed that her father would bequeath the family farm to her assumed, hypothecated, hypothesized, postulated, premised, presumed, presupposed, said accepted, believed, credited, swallowedconcluded, deduced, gathered, inferred, judged, tookconjectured, figured, guessed, reckoned(chiefly dialect), surmised, suspected, suspicioned(chiefly dialect), thoughtconceived, dreamed(or dreamt), fancied, imagined, perceived, preconceivedspeculated, theorizedaffirmed, alleged, asserted, averred, avouched, avowed, claimed, contended, declared, insisted, maintained, professed took for granted challenged, controverted, disagreed (with), disbelieved, discounted, discredited, disputed, distrusted, doubted, mistrusted, questioned, wondered (about)denied, disavowed, disclaimed, disowned, rejected, repudiatedbelied, confuted, disproved, rebutted, refuted in the 15th century |