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supposingverbpresent participle of suppose to 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 calculating, calling, conjecturing, estimating, figuring, gauging(also gaging), guessing, judging, making, placing, putting, reckoning concluding, deducing, extrapolating, gathering, inferring, reasoning, understanding calibrating, measuring, scalingcomputing, working out to form an opinion from little or no evidencewhat do you suppose he's going to do with the prize money he won? assuming, conjecturing, daresaying, guessing, imagining, presuming, speculating, surmising, suspecting, suspicioning(chiefly dialect) concluding, deducing, gathering, inferringhypothecating, hypothesizing, theorizingbelieving, conceiving, expecting, judging, reckoning(chiefly dialect), taking, thinking demonstrating, documenting, establishing, proving, substantiating, validatingascertaining, determining, finding out, learning to have as an opinionvoters wrongly supposed that the new mayor would be opposed to letting hazardous waste be transported through the city allowing(chiefly Southern & Midland), believing, conceiving, considering, deeming, esteeming, feeling, figuring, guessing, holding, imagining, judging, reckoning(chiefly dialect), thinking regarding, viewingaccepting, perceivingdepending, relying, trustingassuming, presuming, presupposing, surmisingconcluding, deducing, inferring distrusting, doubting, mistrusting, questioning, suspectingdisbelieving, discrediting, rejecting to take as true or as a fact without actual proofhad always supposed that her father would bequeath the family farm to her assuming, hypothecating, hypothesizing, postulating, premising, presuming, presupposing, saying accepting, believing, crediting, swallowingconcluding, deducing, gathering, inferring, judging, takingconjecturing, figuring, guessing, reckoning(chiefly dialect), surmising, suspecting, suspicioning(chiefly dialect), thinkingconceiving, dreaming, fancying, imagining, perceiving, preconceivingspeculating, theorizingaffirming, alleging, asserting, averring, avouching, avowing, claiming, contending, declaring, insisting, maintaining, professing taking for granted challenging, controverting, disagreeing (with), disbelieving, discounting, discrediting, disputing, distrusting, doubting, mistrusting, questioning, wondering (about)denying, disavowing, disclaiming, disowning, rejecting, repudiatingbelying, confuting, disproving, rebutting, refuting in 1663 |