Word Finder - supposed

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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.

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Presumed to be true, but without proof

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Jesus is the supposed son of God.

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(with infinitive) Generally considered or expected.

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The movie is supposed to be good.

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(with infinitive) Having an obligation.

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The phone is supposed to come with a manual.

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(with infinitive) Intended.

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The phone is supposed to save us time.

What was that supposed to mean?

The weather is supposed to be nice this weekend.

I'm supposed to be taking care of you...

It's supposed to snow tonight.

Alex was supposed to be sterile, but they had been wrong about that.

What am I supposed to be doing?

Does that mean I'm supposed to change, or that what I'm wearing is considered casual?

And how was she supposed to take that?

Princess was supposed to foal again in January.

Howie was supposed to be looking after his sister.

It was supposed to be in a parking lot nearby.

Felipa said it was supposed to be nice outside today.

We're not supposed to do that!

She was supposed to meet him in a few hours.

The French were supposed to be a mile and a half away, but had suddenly and unexpectedly appeared just in front of us.

I didn't realize I was supposed to dine with you.

You were supposed to grab Gabe's mate, not Darkyn's.

He was only supposed to be investigating him.

As the hired help, she was supposed to be supportive of Cade without upsetting Claudette.

You're supposed to be taking care of me, but that isn't realistic 100% of the time, is it?

She was several miles from where she was supposed to be, off to meet a boy.

I couldn't believe Howie would turn off the power for what was supposed to be a short trip.

He looked up, a surprised expression crossing his face, as if he'd told her something he wasn't supposed to.

She held her head in her hands, tormented by his pain without understanding how she was supposed to help a dead man.

Rainy was supposed to protect a Natural he found.

You were supposed to marry Claire … She went on, closing her eyes as she repeated everything from the memories of others.

I'm not supposed to tell you that.

It will know everyone who is supposed to be in the house and alert you when someone else is in the house (replacing the family dog of old in whom we never fully placed our trust).

It was even supposed by some that the pond had sunk, and this was one of the primitive forest that formerly stood there.

He could not stop what was going on before him and around him and was supposed to be directed by him and to depend on him, and from its lack of success this affair, for the first time, seemed to him unnecessary and horrible.

Their way of life and place of residence, their acquaintances and ties, Natasha's occupations, the children's upbringing, were all selected not merely with regard to Pierre's expressed wishes, but to what Natasha from the thoughts he expressed in conversation supposed his wishes to be.

What's that supposed to mean?

Mannhardt collected a mass of information proving that the life of the corn is supposed to exist apart from the corn itself and to take the form, sometimes of an animal, sometimes of a man or woman, sometimes of a child.

Now the oracle at Delphi was supposed to be very wise.

What reasonable man ever supposed that ornaments were something outward and in the skin merely--that the tortoise got his spotted shell, or the shell-fish its mother-o'-pearl tints, by such a contract as the inhabitants of Broadway their Trinity Church?

She wasn't supposed to know about the building.

I'm supposed to go up to Bartlesville this weekend.

All the same, Saturday found her at a restaurant in Bartlesville, where she was supposed to meet her prospective employer.

Then who is supposed to feed them?

He didn't remember when this man had arrived or why he was supposed to remember him.

Deidre tried to figure out what it was she was supposed to say.

Yet this was the way it was always supposed to have been.

Say it wasn't supposed to be where it was, but the person who found it wasn't supposed to be there either.

And if they told about the thing that was there, then they'd get in trouble, for being there, in the place they weren't supposed to be in.

And because some little snot-nose has a vivid imagination, or thinks it's fun to tell whoppers, I'm supposed to go traipsing off in some god-forsaken mine on the taxpayer's expense on a treasure hunt?

They were supposed to look real, as were all the theater props.

To answer your question, yes, he was supposed to be up on the mountain.

You're supposed to be practically retired.

The next day we were supposed to leave to go back home, so we just did.

By mutual agreement, Alex had final say in decisions, but they were supposed to discuss it first.