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Supposed (verb)
simple past tense and past participle of suppose
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Supposed (adjective)
Presumed to be true, but without proof
“Jesus is the supposed son of God.”
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Supposed (adjective)
Generally considered or expected.
“The movie is supposed to be good.”
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Supposed (adjective)
Having an obligation.
“You are not supposed to smoke in the restaurant. [Note: this means, you are obliged not to smoke.]”
“The phone is supposed to come with a manual.”
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Supposed (adjective)
Intended.
“The phone is supposed to save us time.””
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Suppose (verb)
To take for granted; to conclude, with less than absolute supporting data; to believe.
“Suppose that A implies B and B implies C. Then A implies C.”
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Suppose (verb)
To theorize or hypothesize.
“I suppose we all agree that this is the best solution.”
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Suppose (verb)
To imagine; to believe; to receive as true.
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Suppose (verb)
To require to exist or to be true; to imply by the laws of thought or of nature.
“Purpose supposes foresight.”
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Suppose (verb)
To put by fraud in the place of another.
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Supposed (adjective)
generally assumed or believed to be the case, but not necessarily so
“people admire their supposed industriousness”
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Suppose (verb)
think or assume that something is true or probable but lack proof or certain knowledge
“I suppose I got there about noon”
“he supposed the girl to be about twelve”
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Suppose (verb)
used to make a suggestion or a hesitant admission
“suppose we leave this to the police”
“I’m quite a good actress, I suppose”
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Suppose (verb)
used to introduce a hypothesis and imagine its development
“suppose he had been murdered—what then?”
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Suppose (verb)
(of a theory or argument) assume or require that something is the case as a precondition
“the theory supposes a predisposition to interpret utterances”
“the procedure supposes that a will has already been proved”
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Suppose (verb)
be required to do something because of the position one is in or an agreement one has made
“I’m supposed to be meeting someone at the airport”
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Suppose (verb)
be forbidden to do something
“I shouldn’t have been in the study—I’m not supposed to go in there”