meaning of suppose
1. To represent to ones 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?
2. To imagine; to believe; to receive as true.
3. To require to exist or to be true; to imply by the laws of thought or of nature; as, purpose supposes foresight.
4. To put by fraud in the place of another.
5. To make supposition; to think; to be of opinion.
6. Supposition.
7. express a supposition; "Let us say that he did not tell the truth"; "Lets say you had a lot of money--what would you
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Related Words
suppose | supposed | supposedly | supposeer |
