Suppose

Definition: Suppose

Suppose

Verb

1. Express a supposition; "Let us say that he did not tell the truth"; "Let's say you had a lot of money--what would you do?".

2. Expect, believe, or suppose; "I imagine she earned a lot of money with her new novel"; "I thought to find her in a bad state"; "he didn't think to find her in the kitchen"; "I guess she is angry at me for standing her up".

3. To believe especially on uncertain or tentative grounds: "Scientists supposed that large dinosaurs lived in swamps.".

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

Date "suppose" was first used: sometime around 1303. (references)

Synonyms: Suppose

Inexpectation

Phrase: little did one think, little did one expect; nobody would ever suppose, nobody would ever think, nobody would ever expect; who would have thought? it beats the Dutch.

Supposition

Verb: suppose, conjecture, surmise, suspect, guess, divine; theorize; presume, presurmise, presuppose; assume, fancy, wis, take it; give a guess, speculate, believe, dare say, take it into one's head, take for granted; imagine.

Crosswords: Suppose

French (supposes).

There are certain skills best acquired in public bars, I suppose. (Sleuth; writing credit: Anthony Shaffer)

Oh I suppose your right, Holly (Moonraker; writing credit: Christopher Wood)

Me? I suppose I could if it came to that (The Green Mile; writing credit: Frank Darabont)

I don't suppose anybody'll give me three million just for you (Speed; writing credit: Graham Yost)

I suppose so. (Superman II; writing credit: Jerry Siegel; Joe Shuster)

And who'd suppose you would go (At The Stars; performing artist: Better Than Ezra)

Don't suppose I'll ever know (Slide; performing artist: Goo Goo Dolls)

I suppose I could collect my books and get on back to school (MAGGIE MAY; performing artist: Rod Stewart)

I said, He's a fairy, I do suppose ("Rapper's Delight"; performing artist: Sugarhill Gang)

But everyone knows that a man aint suppose to cry (I Wish It Would Rain; performing artist: The Temptations)

Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself. (references; author: Mark Twain)

Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself. (references; author: Mark Twain)

Just Suppose (1948)

How Am I Suppose To Live Without You (performing artist: Laura Branigan)

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Books

• Suppose the Wolf Were an Octopus (reference)

• Suppose They Gave a Peace and Other Stories (Five Star First Edition Science Fiction and Fantasy Series) (reference)

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Music

• What Do You Suppose -Alien Que (reference)

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May I introduce my friend, Mr. Cameron? : Debutante from the wilds: of course, what d'yer suppose I come for?. Credit: Library of Congress.

Mary, he faltered, Mary, do you suppose it's possible you could ever think of marrying me?. Credit: Library of Congress.

What's the matter Emily, mal de mer? : I suppose so : these awful French goats!. Credit: Library of Congress.

Why do you suppose Joe picked that date?. Credit: Library of Congress.

I don't suppose he'd want me to write the history!. Credit: Library of Congress.

Yes, I suppose it's hereditary -- my fishing : you see my great-grandfather was a whaling captain. Credit: Library of Congress.

I suppose, Mrs. Barnfeather, you will be bringing off a fine spring brood before long? : No, Mr. Yellowbill, at the present price of eggs we think we can't afford it this year. Credit: Library of Congress.

Death on economy. U.S. "I suppose I must spend a little on life-saving service, life-boat stations, life-boats, surf-boats, etc.; but it is too bad to be obliged to waste so much money" / Th. Nast. Credit: Library of Congress.

Young Negro wife cooking breakfast, outskirts of El Paso, Texas. "Do you suppose I'd be out on the highway cooking my steak if I had it good at home?" Occupations: hotel maid, cook, laundress. Credit: Library of Congress.

Suppose they gave a war -- and nobody came / Zoro. Credit: Library of Congress.

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Let us suppose then the legislative placed in the concurrence of three distinct persons. (Second Treatise of Government)

Suppose a duty on the export of cotton, of tobacco, or of flour; and a suit instituted to recover it. (reference)

Because you see the 46 millions in our island harassed about their food supply, of which they only grow one half, even in war-time, or because we have difficulty in restarting our industries and export trade after six years of passionate war effort, do not suppose that we shall not come through these dark years of privation as we have come through the glorious years of agony, or that half a century from now, you will not see 70 or 80 millions of Britons spread about the world and united in defense of our traditions, our way of life, and of the world causes which you and we espouse. ("Iron Curtain" Speech)

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Had you witnessed my behaviour there, I can hardly suppose you would ever have thought well of me again

I returned the book, looking, I suppose, a little blank, as the lady laughed merrily at my discomfiture

But I suppose you must have the whole day.

Gravity, said Dirk with a slightly dismissive shrug, "yes, there was that as well, I suppose. Though that, of course, was merely a discovery

Here, one would suppose, might have been sorrow enough to imbue the sunniest disposition, through and through, with a sable tinge

A drop of vinegar in a spoonful of flour supplied the (r)fiat lux . Suppose the drop greater and the spoonful larger, and you have the world

I suppose you mean the barefooted children that are taught by a bloody ape like you.

I suppose it comes from the fact that none of us can stand other people having the same faults as ourselves

If we suppose him to pay a rent instead, this is but a doubtful choice of evils

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Business

It is not unreasonable to suppose that, with some effort and investment in market development and continued after-sales quality service, this position of privilege will be maintained. (references)

Economic History

Vietnam

It is reasonable to suppose that this requirement would be applied to multi-level marketing organizations if they were established here. (references)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "suppose": i suppose so ♦ let us suppose that ♦ let's suppose that ♦ suppose we went for a walk ♦ well! i suppose it can't be helped!. Additional references.

Beginning with "suppose": suppose-the.

Ending with "suppose": pre-suppose.

Afrikaans

veronderstel (guess, hypothesize, presume, surmise), meen (account, accredit, believe, deem, guess, presume, surmise), vermoë (ability, guess, presume, surmise). (various references)

Albanian

supozoj (assume, calculate, conjecture, expect, guess, hypothesize, imagine, make, make advances to, presume, presuppose, rate, reckon for), mendoj (believe, conceive, consider, contemplate, deem, deliberate, dream up, elaborate, expect, fancy, feel, figure, guess, hold, imagine, judge, mean, opine, ponder, rate, reason, reckon for, reflect, regard, repute, say, study, take, think, Trow, try, understand, ween). (various references)

Arabic 

‏قدر (afford, amount, appraise, appreciate, assess, assume, be able to, be capable of, believe, can, consider, cost, count, deal, degree, esteem, estimate, evaluate, guess, lot, magnitude, manage to, measure, number, predestination, predestine, predetermine, presume, prize, proportion, quantity, rate, size, think, treasure, value, volume), ‏تصور (be photographed, conceive, conception, envisage, fantasy, ideation, imagination, imagine, phantasy, picture, project, see, vision, visualization, visualize), ‏خمن (appraise, estimate, evaluate, guess, infer, riddle, size up, speculate, surmise), ‏إفترض (assume, imagine, postulate, presume, reckon), ‏إستلزم ضمنا, ‏إعتقد (believe, calculate, conceive, consider, deem, imagine, reckon, say, think), ‏رأى (catch sight of, conceive, consider, discern, estimation, pronouncement, see, set eyes on, sight, spy, take notice), ‏ظن (calculate, fancy, guess, imagine, misgiving, reckon, supposition, surmise, suspect, think). (various references)

Bulgarian 

считам (conceive, deem, esteem, guess, hold, look on, make, reckon, regard, repute, see, think, vote), въобразявам си (fancy, image, imagine, represent to oneself, think), не се превежда (off, on, only, out, over, that, very, worse), мисля (deliberate, figure, guess, imagine, opine, pore, puzzle, puzzle over, reason, reckon, repute, see, think, ween, weigh), представям си (conceive, dream, envisage, fancy, figure to oneself, image, imagine, picture to oneself, represent to oneself, see, think), предполагам (assume, believe, conjecture, divine, expect, guess, imagine, implicate, imply, postulate, presume, presuppose, reckon, suspect, take, take a notion, think, think for, ween), допускам (accept, admit, allow, assume, bear, concede, permit, tolerate). (various references)

Chinese 

猜想 (guess, suspect), 假设 (Assume, Assumed, Assuming, hypothesize, Postulate, Postulated, Postulating, Supposing), 假使 , 假 (artificial, fake, false, if, to borrow, vacation). (various references)

Czech

předpokládat (assume, imagine, involve, postulate, presume, presuppose, surmise, trust, visualize). (various references)

Danish

antage (guess, presume, surmise). (various references)

Dutch

vermoeden (conjecture, guess, presume, supposition, surmise), stellen (adjust, edit, guess, lay down, place, presume, put, put down, put right, surmise), menen (account, accredit, behind believe, believe, deem, guess, presume, surmise). (various references)

Esperanto

supozi (guess, presume, surmise). (various references)

Faeroese

halda (account, accredit, believe, celebrate, deem, guess, hang onto, have a subscription, hold, presume, retain, surmise, take in). (various references)

Farsi 

فرض کردن (Adjudge, Aim, Assume, Count, Deem, Hypothesize, Imagine, Posit, Presume, Put, Repute), پنداشتن (Assume, Coneive, Count, Deem, Imagine, Take), گمان کردن (Reckon, Suspect, Think), انگاشتن (Assume, Imagine). (various references)

Finnish

olettaa (assume, guess, presume, surmise). (various references)

French

supposer (be supposed, surmise). (various references)

Frisian

fermoedzje (guess, presume, surmise), ergje (guess, presume, surmise). (various references)

German

vermuten (assume, conjecture, guess, imagine, presume, surmise, suspect, think, to assume, to suppose, to surmise, to suspect). (various references)

Greek 

υποθέτω (assume, guess, hypothesize, posit, presume, surmise). (various references)

Hebrew 

לשער (approximate, assume, conjecture, surmise), לסבור (believe, deem, mean, opine, reckon, surmise, think), הניח (place, put). (various references)

Hungarian

feltesz (bet, laid, pose, put up, set up, to assume, to lay, to postulate, to put up, to suppose, to surmise), feltételez (assume, conjecture, connote, hypothesize, presume, presuppose, put, surmise, to conjecture, to presume, to put, to suppose, to surmise). (various references)

Icelandic

halda (guess, presume, surmise). (various references)

Indonesian

menyangka (surmise), mengakankan, mengaci-acikan (imagine), andaikata. (various references)

Italian

supporre (assume, believe, expect, guess, hypothesise, hypothesize, imagine, judge, mean, opine, postulate, presume, reckon, surmise, suspect, think, to assume, to suspect). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

見受ける (to catch sight of, to see, to suppose). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

みうける (to catch sight of, to see, to suppose). (various references)

Korean 

가정하십시요. (various references)

Manx

shein (conjecture, guess, imagine, presume, speculate), sheiltyn (conceive, conceiving, conjecture, fancy, guess, imagine, presume, speculate, supposing, theorize, visualize), sheil, goaill ass laue (attempt, presume, undertake), abbyr dy vel. (various references)

Papiamen

ideá (guess, presume, surmise). (various references)

Pig Latin

upposesay.(various references)

Polish

przypuszczać (guess, presume, surmise). (various references)

Portuguese

supor (assume, conjecture, consider, dream, expect, fancy, guess, imagine, make out, presume, see, surmise, think, ween). (various references)

Romanian

socoti (account, believe, calculate, call, cipher out, compute, consider, count, deem, esteem, examine, fancy, feel, figure, find, guess, hold, imagine, judge, make, number, put, rate, reckon, regard, tally, think, work out), presupune (assume, calculate, conjecture, expect, fancy oneself, feel, imagine, imply, infer, presume, surmise, suspect), opina (opine, reckon, think), gândi (believe, deem, hesitate, hope, imagine, reason, reflect, ruminate, think), crede (account, accredit, assume, believe, consider, credit, deem, expect, fancy, figure, guess, imagine, put credit in, reckon, seeing is believing, think), bãnui (anticipate, conjecture, distrust, doubt, feel, foreknow, foresee, guess, imagine, mistrust, presume, smoke, sniff, surmise, suspect, think), afla (appear, be, consider, discover, experience, find, hear, learn, see, strike, think, understand), a-şi imagina (depicture, fancy, figure, get, imagine, picture to oneself), a-şi închipui (fancy, figure, image, picture to oneself). (various references)

Russian 

предполагать (anticipate, assume, be supposed to, conjecture, expect, guess, imagine, presume, presuming, presuppose, supposes, supposing, surmise, understand), полагать допустим, полагать (believe, count, deem, guess, opine, reckon, repute, think, trow). (various references)

Scottish

saoil (a mark, deem, imagine, think). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

trebati (be necessary, need, ought), pretpostaviti (assume, connote, hypothesize, presuppose, surmise, suspect, trow). (various references)

Spanish

suponer (entail, expect, guess, involve, mean, presume, presuppose, pretend, say, surmise, trust), presumir (assume, conjecture, fancy, presume, show off, suspect, swank, to assume, to suspect), asumir (absorb, assimilate, assume, guess, photograph, presume, put on, receive, surmise, take, take on, take over). (various references)

Swedish

anta (accept, admit, adopt, approve, embrace, engage, expect, guess, pass, presume, put on, surmise, suspect, take), tro (account, accredit, belief, believe, confide, credit, deem, faith, fancy, guess, imagine, keep faith, persuasion, reckon, supposition, take, think, troth, trust), mena (allow, deem, drive at, intend, mean, opine, think), förmoda (assume, conjecture, expect, fancy, imagine, presume, reckon, surmise). (various references)

Turkish

sanmak (assume, conjecture, expect, fancy, flatter oneself, guess, imagine, presume, put down, repute, surmise, take, take for, think). (various references)

Turkmen 

osmak, oяlamak, цяtmek (think), зenlemek (assume, plan), зaklamak (assume). (various references)

Ukrainian

гадати (allot, conjecture, consider, deem, opine, propose), мати певні обов'язки, припущення (admission, assumption, calculation, conjecture, guess, hypothesis, inference, perhaps, presumption, presupposition, subaudition, supposition, surmise, theory), потребувати (affect, cost, crave, need, require, want), допускати (accept, admit, admit to, allow, allow of, own, permit). (various references)

Welsh

tybio (assume, imagine, think), tebygu (assimilate, liken, resemble), bwrw (cast, imagine, shed, spend, strike, throw, woof). (various references)

credam, credamus, credant, credas, credat, credatis, crede, credebam, credebant, credebat, credemus, credendo, credens, credent, credentem, credentes, credenti, credentibus, credentium, credere, crederent, crederentur, crederet, crederetis, crederetur, crederis, credes, credet, credetis, credi, crediderant, crediderint, credideris, crediderit, credideritis, crediderunt, credidi, credidimus, credidissent, credidisti, credidistis, credidit, credimus, credis, credit, credita, creditae, creditam, credite, creditis, creditor, creditum, creditur, credituri, creditus, credo, credunt, discredatis, existimabam, existimabant, existimabat, existimabo, existimans, existimante, existimantes, existimantium, existimare, existimarent, existimas, existimasti, existimat, existimate, existimaveram, existimavi, existimavit, existimer, existimes, existimet, existimetur, existimo, insuspicabilia, insuspicabilis, opinari, opinatissimam, puta, putabam, putabant, putabantur, putabas, putabat, putabatur, putabis, putabitur, putamus, putandum, putans, putant, putare, putaremini, putaret, putas, putasne, putat, putationis, putatis, putaveris, putaverunt, putavi, putavimus, putavit, putes, putet, puto, rata, ratus, reor, reputo, sentio, subponamus, subponens, subponere, subponit, subposito, subpositus, subposuerat, subposuerunt, subposuit, sum, sumam, sumamus, sumas, sumat, sume, sumebant, sumenda, sumendi, sumens, sument, sumentes, sumere, sumerem, sumeret, sumes, sumesque, sumet, sumetis, sumetisque, sumetque, sumetur, sumit, sumite, sumpserim, sumpserint, sumpsero, sumpserunt, sumpsimus, sumpsisset, sumpsisti, sumpsit, sumpsitque, sumpta, sumptis, sumptu, sumptum, sumptumque, sumptus, sumunt, supponere, suspicabantur, suspicabar, suspicabatur, suspicaberis, suspicamini, suspicati, suspicatus, suspicetur, volo. (various references)

suppositio. (various references)

supposer. (various references)

poser. (various references)

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

Derivations

Words beginning with "suppose": supposed, supposedly, supposer, supposers, supposes. (additional references)

Words ending with "suppose": presuppose. (additional references)

Words containing "suppose": presupposed, presupposes. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Suppose" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: soppose, Sposa, spose, s'ppose, supose, suposse, suppesse, suppos, supposer, supposs, supposse, suppost, surpose. (additional references)

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: opuses, spouse.

-2 letters: pepos, pesos, popes, poses, posse, puses, soups, souse, spues, supes.

-3 letters: epos, opes, opus, oses, pepo, peps, peso, pope, pops, pose, pups, puss, sops, soup, sous, spue, sues, supe, sups, uses.

-4 letters: ess, oes, ope, ops, ose, pep, pes, pop, pup, pus, sop, sos, sou, sue, sup, upo, ups, use.

-5 letters: es.

+1 letter: purposes, supposed, supposer, supposes.

+2 letters: polypuses, supercops, superpose, superpros, supposers.

+3 letters: eohippuses, presuppose, prospectus, prosperous, pseudopods, superports, superposed, superposes, supporters, supposable, supposedly, suppressor, unstoppers.

+4 letters: perspicuous, pompousness, popularises, presupposed, presupposes, purposeless, supergroups, superimpose, superperson, superposing, superpowers, suppletions, suppression, suppressors, tropopauses.

+5 letters: appressorium, oversupplies, phosphoruses, populousness, postexposure, preposterous, presumptions, presumptuous, presupposing, prospectuses, prosperously, pseudomorphs, scuppernongs, superimposed, superimposes, superpersons, superposable, superprofits, superweapons, suppressions, unprosperous.