Supposed

Definition: Supposed

Supposed

Adjective

1. Firmly believed; "the way things are supposed to be".

2. Required or under orders; "I'm supposed to be there at ten"; "he was supposed to go to the store".

3. Mistakenly believed; "the supposed existence of ghosts".

4. Commonly put forth or accepted as true on inconclusive grounds; "the foundling's putative father"; "the reputed (or purported) author of the book"; "the supposed date of birth".

5. Designed to; "medication that is supposed to relieve pain"; "what's that gadget supposed to do?".

6. Doubtful or suspect; "these so-called experts are no help".

7. Based primarily on surmise rather than adequate evidence; "theories about the extinction of dinosaurs are still highly conjectural"; "the supposed reason for his absence"; "suppositious reconstructions of dead languages"; "supposititious hypotheses".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "supposed" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references)

Synonyms: Supposed

Crosswords: Supposed

Every story you've ever heard about vampires, werewolves, or aliens, is the system assimilating some program that's doing something they're not supposed to be doing (The Matrix Reloaded; writing credit: Andy Wachowski; Larry Wachowski)

How can I heal? How am I supposed to heal if I can't feel time (Memento; writing credit: Bo Goldman; Lawrence Hauben)

What are you supposed to be, some kind of cosmonaut (Ghostbusters; writing credit: Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis.)

What was I supposed to do -- call him for cheating better than me, in front of the others (The Sting; writing credit: David S. Ward)

I'm a lawyer, what we think isn't supposed to matter (Double Jeopardy; writing credit: David Weisberg; Douglas Cook)

Nobody's supposed to be here (Nobody's Supposed To Be Here (Dance Mix); performing artist: Deborah Cox)

Am I supposed to change (We Need A Resolution; performing artist: Aaliyah)

Tell me how the pain's supposed to go (What It Takes; performing artist: Aerosmith)

Mishale, what am i supposed to do (Mishale; performing artist: Andru Donalds)

What am I supposed to do then (When Can I See You; performing artist: Babyface; writing credit: Babyface)

If you are supposed to learn from your mistakes, why do some people have more than one child. (references; author: unknown)

It Wasn't Supposed to Happen (1991)

How Am I Supposed To Live Without You (performing artist: Michael Bolton)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Big Secrets: The Uncensored Truth About All Sorts of Stuff You Are Never Supposed to Know (reference)

• I Know I Am Not Supposed to Say This... but I'll Say It Anyway.' (reference)

• This Is the Mac: It's Supposed to Be Fun: All the Stuff Beginners Need to Know, Drawn from the Most Popular Mac Book Ever (reference)

• What the Hell Is a Groom and What's He Supposed to Do (reference)

• Who I Was Supposed To Be (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• A Man Ain't Supposed to Cry (reference)

• Nobody's Supposed to Be Here (Dance Mixes) [CD/Vinyl Single] [CD-SINGLE] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

She-- she's supposed to be asleep, she faltered nervously. Credit: Library of Congress.

The body of martyr Amam is also supposed to be arrived [sic] tonight by the airplane / Ardeshir Mohassess. Credit: Library of Congress.

Cincinnatus in retirement falsely supposed to represent Jesuit-Pad driven back to his native Potatoes : see Romish Common-Wealth. Credit: Library of Congress.

Detail of tabby wall. Ruins of supposed Spanish mission. St. Marys Georgia. Credit: Library of Congress.

Ruins of supposed Spanish mission, Georgia. Credit: Library of Congress.

Tabby construction. Ruins of supposed Spanish mission, St. Marys, Georgia. Credit: Library of Congress.

Mexican pecan workers union official displaying relief supplies which are supposed to feed a family of three for two weeks. The articles shown are beans and butter. San Antonio, Texas. Credit: Library of Congress.

Graveyard near Hazard, Kentucky, with individual houses where the soul is supposed to rest. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

God gave the world to men in common; but since he gave it them for their benefit, and the greatest conveniencies of life they were capable to draw from it, it cannot be supposed he meant it should always remain common and uncultivated. (Second Treatise of Government)

It seems only necessary to recognize certain principles, supposed to have been long and well established, to decide it. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

You are not afraid of being supposed ashamed

Suppose you discover a remedy for some disease hitherto supposed to be incurable

The road suddenly turns out to be impassable because it's being rebuilt by the Chinese, only we're not supposed to know that

Pearl felt the sentiment, and requited it with the bitterest hatred that can be supposed to rankle in a childish bosom

Hearing no sound, he supposed that Fantine was asleep, went in softly, and approached the bed on tiptoe

Vouchsafe, divine perfection of a woman, Of these supposed crimes to give me leave By circumstance but to acquit myself

Men is supposed to think things out.

Those who stood nearest over against me seemed to be persons of distinction, as I supposed by their habit

The former was a sort of cyclopaedia to him, which he supposed to contain an abstract of human knowledge, as indeed it does to a considerable extent

We do on stage the things that are supposed to happen off. Which is a kind of integrity, if you look on every exit being an entrance somewhere else

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Write down the things you are supposed to do before you leave the doctor’s office, or soon after. (references)

In a neurogenic bladder, the nerves that are supposed to carry these messages do not work properly. (references)

When an organ pokes out past the muscle wall that is supposed to hold the organ in place, you have a hernia. (references)

Business

It was supposed to serve as a base of operation for myriad airport related services, business offices, and amenity facilities. (references)

However, this does not apply to plant products, e.g. seeds, which are supposed to be planted in Germany for direct commercial harvest. (references)

Although OECD negotiations concluded in the spring of 1992 succeeded in establishing criteria which are supposed to govern the eligibility of projects in developing countries to receive tied soft credits. (references)

Civil Liberties

Macedonia

License fees collected from private broadcasters are supposed to help subsidize the state-run system, but collections were inconsistent. (references)

Bahamas

There is no legislation governing the processing of asylum seekers, and applications for political asylum are supposed to be adjudicated on a case-by-case basis at the cabinet level. (references)

Poland

While children are supposed to have the choice between religious instruction and ethics, the Ombudsman's office states that in most schools, ethics courses are not offered due to financial constraints. (references)

Economic History

Ukraine

The duration of the licensing procedure is supposed to be reduced from 30 days to 10 days. (references)

Brazil

The tax is supposed to be temporary, but has been extended several times, in part because of its ease of collection. (references)

Philippines

New regulations are supposed to be published in national newspapers of general circulation, often before taking effect. (references)

Human Rights

Togo

He was neither charged nor tried for his supposed offense. (references)

Peru

Attorneys are supposed to have unimpeded access to their clients. (references)

Nigeria

The NHRC is supposed to work closely with NGO's that are devoted to human rights issues. (references)

Minorities

Moldova

When legal representatives for the Church examined these petitions, they reportedly found many names of incarcerated persons and the deceased among the supposed signatories. (references)

Latvia

The goal of this program is to facilitate the eventual transition to Latvian-language secondary schools by 2004. Although all non-Latvian-speaking students in public schools are supposed to learn Latvian and to study a minimum number of subjects in Latvian, there is a shortage of qualified teachers. (references)

Political Economy

Solomon Islands

All weapons were supposed to be surrendered, and shipping containers were placed at strategic locations throughout the country for depositing them. (references)

Political Rights

Cameroon

Polling officials are supposed to provide a method by which voters can dispose of the unused ballots privately before exiting the closed booth, but this rarely was done in the 1996 or 1997 elections. (references)

Liberia

Municipalities and chieftaincies are supposed to elect their own officials, but elections, postponed in 1998 due to lack of funds and disorganization, were not held by year's end for the same reason. (references)

Trade

Senegal

Other special tariffs are also applied under the CET regime to protect selected industries, although rates are lower in some cases and a five-year phase out period is supposed to apply. (references)

Travel

Saudi Arabia

Companies not complying with the five percent rule (which increases in annual increments of five percent) are not supposed to receive visas for expatriate workers. (references)

Worker Rights

China

These congresses are supposed to be the vehicle for worker input into enterprise policies and for guiding union activities. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "supposed": be supposed ♦ be supposed to ♦ be supposed to do ♦ be supposed to do smth. ♦ not to be supposed to ♦ supposed to ♦ what is that supposed to be?. Additional references.

Beginning with "supposed": supposed-to-be-seductive.

Ending with "supposed": pre-supposed.

Albanian

i supozuar (alleged, assumed, conjectural, expected, hypothetic, presumptive, putative, reputed), i paqenë (inexistent). (various references)

Arabic 

‏مفترض (assumed, given, presumed, presupposed), ‏مفروض فيه كذا, ‏متصور, ‏مزعوم (alleged, allegedly, claimed, pretended, professed, so called). (various references)

Bulgarian 

очакван (expected, foregone, intended, previsional, prospective), мним (make believe, mock, ostensible, professed, quasi-, seeming), предназначен (designed), предполагаем (alleged, assumptive, conjectural, presumable, presumptive, probable, putative, reputed, suppositional, supposititious, tentative). (various references)

Chinese 

假想 (supposedly). (various references)

Czech

pravdìpodobný (colourable, feasible, likely, plausible, presumable, probable, verisimilar), předpokládaný (assumed, hypothetical, notional, presumed, reputed), hypotetický (hyp, hypothetic, hypothetical, suppositional), domnìlý (alleged, assumed, fancied, imaginary, presumptive), údajný (alleged, ostensible, reputed). (various references)

Danish

sandsynlig forfatter (supposed author), kvinde,der formodes at være gravid (woman supposed to be pregnant). (various references)

Dutch

vrouw die verondersteld is zwanger te zijn (woman supposed to be pregnant), vermeende auteur (supposed author), moeten (are supposed to, have to, must, need, need to, ought to, require, should). (various references)

Esperanto

supozis. (various references)

Finnish

muka (alleged). (various references)

French

supposai, supposés, supposées, supposée, supposé, supposa, soi-disant (supposedly), prétendu, présumé. (various references)

Galician

suposto. (various references)

German

vermutete (conjectured, guessed, presumed, supposes, surmised), vermutet (conjectures, guesses, presumes, supposes, surmises, suspects), vermeintlich (alleged, pretended, putative, reputed), unterstellt (imputes), mutmaßlich (conjectural, conjecturally, presumed, probable, putative, suspected). (various references)

Greek 

υποτιθεμένοσ (alleged, presumable, putative, reputed, self-styled), δήθεν (ostensible, ostensibly, professedly, so called, so-called, supposedly). (various references)

Hebrew 

משוער (estimated, hypothetical, putative), אמור (mentioned, stated), חיב (bound, indebted, must, owing, should). (various references)

Hungarian

feltételezett (hypothetic, hypothetical, speculative, suppositional), állítólagos (alleged, ostensible, professed, reputed, self-styled, so called, swiss admiral, would be). (various references)

Italian

ipotetico (hypothetic, hypothetical, presumed). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

集合時間 (time appointed for meeting, time one is supposed to meet). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

しゅうごうじかん (time appointed for meeting, time one is supposed to meet). (various references)

Korean 

가정 (Assumption, Home, Supposing). (various references)

Manx

sheiltynit. (various references)

Pig Latin

upposedsay.(various references)

Portuguese

suposto (assumed, pretended, reputed, seeming, self-styled, so-called, suppositional, supposititious, would-be), pretenso (ostensible, pretended, professed, reputed, self-styled, so-called, would-be), presumível (presumable, presumptive). (various references)

Romanian

presupus (assumptive, constructive, presumed, probable, so called, would be). (various references)

Russian 

мнимый (alleged, imaginary, mock, ostensible, professed, putative, put-on, seeming, self-styled, would be), предполагать предполагаемый (intended, presumed), предполагаемый (alleged, anticipative, assumable, expected, implied, presumptive, probable, purported, putative, reputed, suppositional). (various references)

Scottish

caoimhneas (kindness. This word is supposed by folk etymology to be from caomh). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

tobožnji (assumed, ostensibly, pretended, quasi, would be), navodni (alleged, reputed). (various references)

Spanish

supuesto (assumed, involved, postulation, pretended, self-styled, so called, think). (various references)

Swedish

förment (supposedly, would be). (various references)

Turkish

sözde (alleged, allegedly, as if, as though, nominal, nominally, of a sort, of sorts, ostensible, professed, professedly, quasi, quasi-, reputed, self-styled, so called, soi-disant, would be), sözüm ona, zannedilen (suppositional, supposititious), varsayılan (conjectural, putative), farzedilmiş. (various references)

Turkmen 

hyяally (imaginary). (various references)

Ukrainian

удаваний (affected, artificial, assumed, counterfeit, feigned, hypocrite, make believe, mock, obvious, ostensible, ostensive, pretended, professed, put on, seeming, shoddy, simulate, studied, well-affected, would be), передбачуваний (assumed, assumptive, calculable, constructive, estimated, intended, reputative). (various references)

Vietnamese 

coi như là đúng chỉ là giả thiết, cho là nó có, chỉ là tưởng tượng. (various references)

Welsh

tybiedig (putative). (various references)

putativus. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "supposed": supposedly. (additional references)

Words ending with "supposed": presupposed. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Supposed" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: soppose, sposed, s'ppose, supose, suposed, suposse, supossed, suppesse, suppessed, suppos, supposer, supposse, suppossed, surpose. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: pseudos, spoused, suppose.

-2 letters: douses, opuses, pseudo, pseuds, sopped, souped, soused, spodes, spouse, supped.

-3 letters: dopes, doses, douse, dupes, pepos, pesos, popes, posed, poses, posse, pseud, puses, soups, souse, spode, spuds, spued, spues, supes, updos, upped.

-4 letters: does, dope, dose, doss, dues, duos, dupe, dups, epos, odes, oped, opes, opus, oses, ouds, peds, pepo.

+2 letters: pseudopods, superposed, supposedly.

+3 letters: presupposed.

+4 letters: pseudomorphs, superimposed.