Antonyms for supposes
| Grammar : Verb |
| Spell : suh-pohz |
| Phonetic Transcription : səˈpoʊz |
Definition of supposes
Origin :- early 14c., "to assume as the basis of argument," from Old French supposer "to assume," probably a replacement of *suppondre (influenced by Old French poser "put, place"), from Latin supponere "put or place under," from sub "under" + ponere "put, place" (see position). Meaning "to admit as possible, to believe to be true" is from 1520s.
- verb assume, guess
- verb believe
- It supposes dualism and not unity in nature and consciousness.
- Extract from : « Essays, First Series » by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- No one supposes certain French novels to be a representation of ordinary French life.
- Extract from : « Symposium » by Plato
- He supposes a day of retribution, in which the good are to be rewarded and the wicked punished.
- Extract from : « Gorgias » by Plato
- It supposes the body to continue and to be in another world what it has become in this.
- Extract from : « Gorgias » by Plato
- Every universal truth which we express in words, implies or supposes every other truth.
- Extract from : « Nature » by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- And do you suppose that any one who knows what things he ought to do supposes that he ought not to do them?
- Extract from : « The Memorabilia » by Xenophon
- He is dying to conform to anything that he supposes to be the discipline of his class.
- Extract from : « Roland Cashel » by Charles James Lever
- That supposes that we have a choice; but my father thinks we have no choice.
- Extract from : « Tony Butler » by Charles James Lever
- To acquit myself with credit is not so easy as Don Baltazar supposes.
- Extract from : « The Pearl of the Antilles, or An Artist in Cuba » by Walter Goodman
- Even a hangman, one supposes, has some sort of human feeling.
- Extract from : « Recollections » by David Christie Murray
Synonyms for supposes
- accept
- admit
- assume
- be afraid
- brainstorm
- calculate
- conceive
- conclude
- conjecture
- consider
- cook up
- dare-say
- deem
- divine
- dream
- estimate
- expect
- fancy
- feel
- figure
- gather
- go out on a limb
- grant
- guesstimate
- have a hunch
- have sneaking suspicion
- hazard a guess
- hypothesize
- imagine
- infer
- judge
- opine
- posit
- postulate
- predicate
- presume
- presuppose
- pretend
- reckon
- regard
- spark
- speculate
- surmise
- suspect
- swear by
- take
- take as gospel truth
- take for granted
- take stock in
- theorize
- think
- understand
- view
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