suppose

Meaning

Verb

• To take for granted; to conclude, with less than absolute supporting data; to believe.
• To theorize or hypothesize.
• To imagine; to believe; to receive as true.
• To require to exist or to be true; to imply by the laws of thought or of nature.
• To put by fraud in the place of another.

Related

Similar words

• assume (1,2)

Origin

• From Middle English supposen, borrowed from Old French supposer, equivalent to prefix sub- + poser; corresponding in meaning to Latin supponere ("to put under, to substitute, falsify, counterfeit"), suppositum. See pose.