Word Finder - suppose

definition

To take for granted; to conclude, with less than absolute supporting data; to believe.

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Suppose that A implies B and B implies C. Then A implies C.

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To theorize or hypothesize.

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I suppose we all agree that this is the best solution.

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To imagine; to believe; to receive as true.

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To require to exist or to be true; to imply by the laws of thought or of nature.

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Purpose supposes foresight.

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To put by fraud in the place of another.

I suppose they're both a little artificial.

I suppose it depends on the driver.

Yeah, well, I suppose it's a little tough in the winter.

I don't suppose he'd agree.

I suppose he wanted to help.

What do you suppose Paulette was doing up there by herself?

Yes, I suppose, she answered.

You don't suppose Martha and Quinn went into hiding, do you?

I suppose everyone asks you, but why are you doing it?

I suppose he missed those.

I suppose you knew that, too.

I suppose no place is better than home on Christmas.

The million dollar hunt for the Psychic Tipster was flooding the press; I suppose as intended.

I suppose he was trying to protect me.

I suppose Paul recognized my name, either before or soon after we first met, back when I was a teenager.

The reasons on which the Duc de Bassano based his refusal to deliver them to him would never have led me to suppose that that could serve as a pretext for aggression.

I suppose dancing that well would require a lot of practice.

If the name was not derived from that of some English locality--Saffron Walden, for instance--one might suppose that it was called originally Walled-in Pond.

I suppose it's very interesting.

Do you suppose they don't smell you coming so quickly?

Well, it doesn't matter anyway, I suppose.

Suppose we each sing a song in turn.

One couple is sleeping apart, so I suppose Ginger and Joseph are already estranged.

Many persons appear to suppose that decisions upon doubtful points can be avoided by the expedient of leaving the traditional reading in possession of the text.

At first the piglet stuck in the neck of the vase and I thought I should get him, after all, but he wriggled himself through and fell down into the deep bottom part--and I suppose he's there yet.

When I awoke and found that all was dark and still, I suppose I thought it was night, and I must have wondered why day was so long coming.

I suppose it is one of the Rostovs!

I suppose it is different things for different people - dreams or goals.

Is someone in the mine, do you suppose?

I suppose I could try for a while, but I'm not making any promises.

Your chief fault, my friend, is in being made of wood, and that I suppose you cannot help.

But the deepest ponds are not so deep in proportion to their area as most suppose, and, if drained, would not leave very remarkable valleys.

If the whole activity of the leaders serves as the expression of the people's will, as some historians suppose, then all the details of the court scandals contained in the biographies of a Napoleon or a Catherine serve to express the life of the nation, which is evident nonsense; but if it is only some particular side of the activity of an historical leader which serves to express the people's life, as other so-called "philosophical" historians believe, then to determine which side of the activity of a leader expresses the nation's life, we have first of all to know in what the nation's life consists.

I suppose it helps keep the carrier from getting attached to the baby.

Why do you suppose they did that?

Suppose Alfred Nota and his pal Homer's break-in at Collingswood Avenue was just a cover-up and their true mission was to plant a listening device.

I suppose I better call off the hounds.

I suppose I ought to thank you.

I suppose it comes in handy for all kinds of surprises.

I suppose it will wait.

I suppose I should be grateful, but it's hard to take care of her when she keeps shoving money back at me.

I suppose you think you're real smart.

I suppose that's true enough.

I suppose I should …" "No. I pawned this job off on you.

Now, what do you suppose happens when agriculture prices shoot way up?

Well… I suppose you don't have to carve all of them.

Anyway, I suppose I owe him something for the three years he bossed me around.

I suppose you get lots of skips, don't you?

The same thing you'd do if you were married, I suppose.

Now why do you suppose he'd interest them?