Hypothesize

Quick meaning: Hypothesize is a verb meaning (ambitransitive) To assume or assert tentatively on uncertain grounds.

Meaning

(ambitransitive) To assume or assert tentatively on uncertain grounds.

Example Sentences

Dahood hypothesizes an occurrence of a verb rihham ('to conceive, enwomb')

Census response is thus a reasonable proxy for civicminded attitudes and cooperation that are hypothesized to improve governmental performance.

When hormones signal breast cells to divide more rapidly, scientists hypothesize, they increase breast cancer risk by causing precancerous or cancerous cells to multiply.

I don’t dispute that some cases of this sort—involving a subject who differentially doubts what, pretheoretically, we would take to be one and the same thought-content, entertained twice—might be best described by hypothesizing a difference in content.

Word Forms

• hypothesizes
• hypothesizing
• hypothesized
• hypothesise

Synonyms for hypothesize

Depending on context, synonyms include hypotheticate, guess, arread, assume, fancy, conject.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include conjecture, suppose, speculate, theorize, hypothecate, theorise.

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