Suppose

/səˈpəʊz/ · verb

Meaning

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

Definitions by Sense

1. (transitive, intransitive) To take for granted; to conclude, with less than absolute supporting data; to believe.
2. (transitive) To theorize or hypothesize.
3. (transitive) To imagine; to believe; to receive as true.
4. (transitive, obsolete) To reckon to be, to account or esteem as.
5. (transitive) To require to exist or to be true; to imply by the laws of thought or of nature.
6. (transitive, obsolete) To put by fraud in the place of another; to substitute fraudulently.

Example Sentences

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

I won't be back before midday, I don't suppose.

I don't suppose you could lend me a euro, could you?

We're a place setting short, there'll be four of us - always supposing your sis really comes.

Mum, can go to the park yet? ~ Suppose you did your homework first.

‘No,’ said Luke, grinning at her. ‘You're not dull enough! […] What about the kid's clothes? I don't suppose they were anything to write home about, but didn't you keep anything? A bootee or a bit of embroidery or anything at all?’

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

Of all the queer collections of humans outside of a crazy asylum, it seemed to me this sanitarium was the cup winner. […] When you're well enough off so's you don't have to fret about anything but your heft or your diseases you begin to get queer, I suppose.

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• supposes
• supposing
• supposed

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