to suppose

Examples

• All

• Before making a decision, we suppose that all the facts have been considered.

• How are we supposed to compete with that?

  Jacket (2018)

• The day of the accident, September 5, 2009, was supposed to be the perfect end to the summer.

  Academic text (2011)

• In such settings, the student is supposed to do his or her best work.

  Academic text (1999)

• Although district councils are supposed to be elected, elections have not yet taken place.

  Academic text (2011)

• I don't suppose you found a key lying around somewhere.

  Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015)

• You're supposed to be professionals!

  HIM (2025)

• Under the Comprehensive Peace Agreement, the two sides were supposed to split the proceeds evenly.

  Academic text (2011)

• Matthew, an eighth-grade saxophonist, said, "It helps to know what it's supposed to sound like."

  Academic text (2011)

• The Obama administration's $38.6 billion clean-technology program was supposed to "create or save 65,000 jobs."

  Academic text (2011)

Synonyms

A

to assume

vsto suppose

∞ 3.2

Think something is true without proof

treats it as a required prior condition rather than an unproven belief

P

to presuppose

vsto suppose

14 8.3

Assume something to be true before you can say or do something

is the same meaning often used as a common alternative form

P

to postulate

vsto suppose

• Formal

3 7.8

To assume something is needed for a plan or idea to work

expresses the requirement of a prior condition rather than merely suggesting it

Antonyms

D

to deny

∞ 2.0

To say that something is not true

How Necessary

to require

∞ 1.1

to presuppose

14 8.3

to suppose

• Formal

∞ 5.3

to assume

∞ 3.2

to imply

367 3.5

to suggest

∞ 1.6

Surface Forms

Etymology