suppose
IPA: sʌpˈoʊz
verb
- (transitive) To take for granted; to conclude, with less than absolute supporting data; to believe.
- (transitive) To theorize or hypothesize.
- (transitive) To imagine; to believe; to receive as true.
- (transitive, obsolete) To reckon to be, to account or esteem as.
- (transitive) To require to exist or to be true; to imply by the laws of thought or of nature.
- (transitive) To put by fraud in the place of another.
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Examples of "suppose" in Sentences
- He is not supposed to adjudge.
- She was not supposed to be enslaved.
- The article is supposed to elucidate.
- The story was not supposed to be erotic.
- They are not supposed to climb the wall.
- Is that supposed to belittle the concept
- The payment was supposed to be allocated.
- The conspirator was supposed to be arrested.
- They are not supposed to culminate the planting.
- I don't think it is supposed to be a rural idyll.
- Which I suppose is like saying of South Carolina Gov.
- K: L'envers et l'endroit (which I suppose translates as
- That, I suppose, is kind of obvious considering both movies are about brilliant surgeons with bizarre fetishes.
- 'We've been to the Rue du Cavalier Barnard again to-day,' he says, 'which I suppose is French for Barnard's-inn.
- This I suppose is fine if you are a follower, but contrast Polytheism to our government and you have a better match.
- Unless, of course, you believe that government-owned capital assets aren't productive, which I suppose is your right.
- "Faith," he said, "suppose (it is a very presumptuous supposition, but one may _suppose_ anything) suppose when my hands are free to take care of my Mignonette, that I should have the offer of two or three different gardens wherein to place her.
- The point here, I suppose, is that check-cashing fees may be an exploitative scam run by sleazeballs, but that they may turn out to be a more prudent option for the working poor than the even-more exploitative scam run by the more mainstream, but sleazier sleazeballs of the banking industry.
- But suppose, Maggie, suppose it was a man who was not conceited, who felt he had nothing to be conceited about; who had been marked from childhood for a peculiar kind of suffering, and to whom you were the day-star of his life; who loved you, worshipped you, so entirely that he felt it happiness enough for him if you would let him see you at rare moments15
- They do not allege that they remember that (and yet as they themselves are, as they say, composed body and soul of this eternal fire mist, they ought to remember), but only that there are certain comets which occasionally come within fifty or sixty millions of miles of this earth, which they suppose may be composed of the fire mist which they _suppose_ this world is made of.