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| Main Entry: | supposed |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | assumed |
| Synonyms: | alleged, apparent, likely, asserted, presumed, presupposed, purported |
| Main Entry: | suppose |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | assume, guess |
| Synonyms: | accept, admit, brainstorm, calculate, conjecture, cook up*, deem, divine, dream, estimate, expect, figure, grant, imagine, infer, judge, opine, predicate, presume, presuppose, pretend, spark, speculate, surmise, suspect, take, theorize, think, understand, dare-say, go out on a limb, guesstimate, hazard a guess, hypothesize, posit, take for granted |
| Antonyms: | calculate, know, measure |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | suppose |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | believe |
| Synonyms: | assume, conceive, conclude, conjecture, consider, deem, dream, expect, fancy, feel, gather, imagine, judge, postulate, pretend, reckon, regard, suspect, swear by, take, think, understand, view, be afraid, have a hunch, have sneaking suspicion, hypothesize, take as gospel truth, take stock in |
| Antonyms: | disbelieve, know |
| Main Entry: | alleged |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | asserted, often doubtful |
| Synonyms: | declared, dubious, ostensible, pretended, professed, questionable, so-called, stated, supposed, suspect, suspicious, averred, described, purported |
| Antonyms: | certain, definite, sure |
| Main Entry: | conjectural |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | speculative |
| Synonyms: | academic, assumed, doubtful, guessing, hypothetical, putative, reputed, supposed, suspect, tentative, theoretical, uncertain, unresolved, figured, guesstimated, on a hunch, on a long shot, suppositional, suppositious, suppositive, surmised, surmising |
| Antonyms: | certain, factual, real, truthful, proven |
| Main Entry: | hypothetical |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | guessed, assumed |
| Synonyms: | academic, casual, conditional, conjectural, contingent, debatable, disputable, doubtful, equivocal, imaginary, imagined, indefinite, indeterminate, presumptive, pretending, problematic, putative, questionable, speculative, supposed, suspect, theoretical, uncertain, vague, assumptive, concocted, conjecturable, contestable, postulated, presupposed, provisory, refutable, stochastic, suppositional, suppositious, theoretic, unconfirmed |
| Antonyms: | calculated, confirmed, factual, measured, proved, real, reliable, truthful, proven |
| Main Entry: | imaginary |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | fictitious, invented |
| Synonyms: | abstract, apocryphal, apparitional, assumed, chimerical, deceptive, delusive, dreamed-up, dreamlike, dreamy, fabulous, fancied, fanciful, fantastic, fictional, figmental, fool's paradise, hallucinatory, hypothetical, ideal, illusive, illusory, imaginative, imagined, legendary, made-up, mythological, nonexistent, notional, phantasmal, phantasmic, quixotic, shadowy, spectral, supposed, supposititious, theoretical, trumped up*, unreal, unsubstantial, visionary, whimsical |
| Notes: | imaginary means not based on fact while imaginative means marked by independence and creativity in thought or action |
| Antonyms: | existing, factual, genuine, physical, real, substantial, true |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | pretended |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | alleged; imaginary |
| Synonyms: | affected, artificial, assumed, avowed, bogus, charlatan, cheating, concealed, counterfeit, covered, factitious, fake, false, falsified, feigned, fictitious, lying, make-believe, masked, mock, ostensible, phony, pretend, professed, pseudo*, quack*, sham*, simulated, so-called, spurious, supposed, bluffing, dissimulated, impostrous, imposturous, purported, put-on, shammed |
| Antonyms: | genuine, real, sincere |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | putative |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | commonly believed |
| Synonyms: | accepted, alleged, assumed, conjectural, hypothetical, imputed, presumptive, reported, reputed, supposed, presumed, suppositional, suppositious |
| Antonyms: | real, true, proven |
| Main Entry: | reputed |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | believed |
| Synonyms: | alleged, assumed, conjectural, considered, estimated, held, hypothetical, ostensible, putative, reported, rumored, said, seeming, supposed, thought, accounted, deemed, gossiped, reckoned, regarded, suppositional, suppositious, supposititious, suppositive, suppository |
| Antonyms: | actual, real, true |
| Main Entry: | titular |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | in name only |
| Synonyms: | nominal, so-called, supposed |
| Antonyms: | actual, real, true |
| Main Entry: | a priori |
| Part of Speech: | adjective/adverb |
| Definition: | deducing from general principle |
| Synonyms: | derivable, presumptive, rational, supposed, theoretical, based on theory, deduced, deductive, inferred, reasoned |
| Antonyms: | a posteriori, empirical |
| Main Entry: | apparent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | seeming, not proven real |
| Synonyms: | credible, illusive, illusory, likely, ostensible, outward, plausible, possible, probable, specious, superficial, supposed, semblant, suppositious |
| Antonyms: | doubtful, dubious, equivocal, hidden, improbable, obscure, questionable, real, uncertain, unclear, unlikely |
| Main Entry: | assumed |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | expected |
| Synonyms: | accepted, given, granted, hypothetical, supposed, tacit, understood, conjectured, connoted, counted on, hypothesized, inferred, postulated, presumed, presupposed, suppositional, surmised, taken as known, taken for granted |
| Antonyms: | unexpected, unassumed |
| Main Entry: | anticipate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | expect; predict |
| Synonyms: | assume, await, bargain for*, conjecture, count on, divine, entertain*, figure, forecast, foresee, foretell, jump the gun*, prognosticate, prophesy, see, suppose, visualize, wait, be afraid, count chickens, cross the bridge, foretaste, have a hunch, hope for, look for, look forward to, plan on, prepare for, prevision, promise oneself, see coming, see in the cards, wait for |
| Antonyms: | doubt, be amazed, be surprised |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | assume |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | believe, take for granted |
| Synonyms: | accept, ascertain, conclude, conjecture, consider, deduce, deem, divine, estimate, expect, fall for, fancy, find, gather, guess, imagine, infer, judge, postulate, predicate, presume, presuppose, speculate, suppose, surmise, suspect, theorize, think, understand, be afraid, be inclined to think, count upon, get the idea, have a hunch, have sneaking suspicion, hypothesize, posit |
| Antonyms: | doubt, not believe |
| Main Entry: | believe |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | trust, rely on |
| Synonyms: | accept, accredit, admit, affirm, attach weight to, be certain of, be convinced of, be credulous, be of the opinion, buy*, conceive, conclude, consider, count on, credit, deem, fall for*, give credence to, have, have faith in, have no doubt, hold, keep the faith, lap up, place confidence in, posit, postulate, presume true, presuppose, reckon on, regard, rest assured, suppose, swallow*, swear by, take as gospel, take at one's word, take for granted, take it, think, trust, understand |
| Antonyms: | disbelieve, distrust |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | believe |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | assume or suppose |
| Synonyms: | conjecture, consider, credit, deem, expect, feel, gather, guess, hold, imagine, judge, maintain, postulate, presume, reckon, sense, speculate, suppose, suspect, take, think, understand |
| Main Entry: | calculate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | plan on |
| Synonyms: | aim, anticipate, assume, bank on, build, count on, design, intend, judge, plan, reckon, suppose, trust, depend on, rely on, think likely |
| Main Entry: | conceive |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | understand |
| Synonyms: | accept, appreciate, apprehend, assume, believe, catch, compass, comprehend, deem, dig, envisage, expect, fancy, feel, follow, gather, get, grasp, imagine, judge, perceive, realize, reckon, suppose, suspect, take, twig |
| Antonyms: | misunderstand, not believe |
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