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Supposed   /səpˈoʊzd/   Listen
Supposed

adjective
1.
Required or under orders.  "He was supposed to go to the store"
2.
Mistakenly believed.
3.
Doubtful or suspect.  Synonyms: alleged, so-called.
4.
Based primarily on surmise rather than adequate evidence.  Synonyms: conjectural, divinatory, hypothetic, hypothetical, suppositional, suppositious, supposititious.  "The supposed reason for his absence" , "Suppositious reconstructions of dead languages" , "Hypothetical situation"


Suppose

verb
(past & past part. supposed; pres. part. supposing)
1.
Express a supposition.  Synonym: say.  "Let's say you had a lot of money--what would you do?"
2.
Expect, believe, or suppose.  Synonyms: guess, imagine, opine, reckon, think.  "I thought to find her in a bad state" , "He didn't think to find her in the kitchen" , "I guess she is angry at me for standing her up"
3.
To believe especially on uncertain or tentative grounds.  Synonyms: conjecture, hypothecate, hypothesise, hypothesize, speculate, theorise, theorize.
4.
Take for granted or as a given; suppose beforehand.  Synonym: presuppose.
5.
Require as a necessary antecedent or precondition.  Synonym: presuppose.





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"Supposed" Quotes from Famous Books



... "I added the four last lines, by way of giving a turn to the theme of the poem, such as it is." The rest of the song is supposed to be from the same hand: the lines are not to be found in ...
— The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. • Robert Burns and Allan Cunningham
... hair grow so long that they could make braids and fasten them round the face with stone rings. The visitors spoke of the "Island of the Bearded People." They had substantial brush huts, supported by pillars bearing inscriptions supposed to allude to their religion, and they enjoyed dancing to the music of bone flutes. For gifts, they most desired red calico ...
— A Truthful Woman in Southern California • Kate Sanborn
... be supposed, however, that we are decrying our present quarters. Mudsplosh Camp is—or is going to be—a nobly planned and admirably equipped military centre. At present it consists of some three hundred wooden huts, in ...
— The First Hundred Thousand • Ian Hay
... next morning his hated mask was put upon his face and he was supported by priests to a door where a litter, or rather litters were waiting, one for himself and another for Jeekie who, although in robust health, was still supposed to be officially ill and not allowed to walk upon his own legs. They entered these litters and were borne off till presently they met a third litter of particularly gorgeous design carried by masked bearers, wherein was the ...
— The Yellow God - An Idol of Africa • H. Rider Haggard
... of the Landgrave, with my letter in his hand, may well be supposed; I had the presence of mind, however, to deny my handwriting, and affect astonishment at so crafty a trick. The Landgrave endeavoured to convict me, told me what Lieutenant Kemnitz had repeated at Vienna ...
— The Life and Adventures of Baron Trenck - Vol. 2 (of 2) • Baron Trenck


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