suppose
Take as given
Suppose means to assume something for the sake of argument or consideration: Suppose we leave early—will that help?
It also means to believe or think, often with less than full certainty: I suppose you're right.
I don't suppose you have change for a twenty? uses polite doubt.
To be supposed to do something is to be expected or required to: You're supposed to call when you arrive.
In the negative, it indicates prohibition: You're not supposed to park here.
Accept without verification
- believeAccept as true
- expectConsider likely to occur
- thinkProcess with the mind
- imagineForm mental pictures
guess · reckon · infer · surmise · anticipate · figure · gather · understand
Propose a tentative explanation
- conjectureGuess from limited facts
- postulateAssumed starting point
- theorizeForm explanatory suppositions
- positAssume for argument
presume · speculate · what-if · premise · scenario · counterfactual · conditional · stipulate
Picture in thought
- pictureVisual depiction of something
- conceiveForm a mental notion
- fancyElaborate or decorative
- visualizeForm mental pictures
dream · contemplate · envisage · ideate · fantasy · pretend · make-believe · daydream
Expression of uncertainty
- perhapsExpressing uncertainty
- possiblyWith some likelihood
- probablyAlmost certainly true
- presumablyTaken as likely true
questionable · doubtful · tentative · iffy · uncertain · unsure · speculative · hypothetically
presume
Accept without verification
imagine · guess · reckon · infer · surmise · anticipate · figure · gather · understand · conclude
hypothesize
Propose a tentative explanation
- conjectureGuess from limited facts
- postulateAssumed starting point
- theorizeForm explanatory suppositions
posit · presume · speculate · what-if · premise · scenario · counterfactual · conditional · stipulate · grant
envision
Picture in thought
visualize · dream · contemplate · envisage · ideate · fantasy · pretend · make-believe · daydream · ponder
maybe
Expression of uncertainty
presumably · questionable · doubtful · tentative · iffy · uncertain · unsure · speculative · hypothetically · arguably
imply
Indicate without stating
mean · entail · require · necessitate · insinuate · hint · intimate
- what-ifswhat if, hypothetical, thought experiment, speculation, conjecture
- mental verbsthink, believe, know, imagine, remember
- hypotheticalshypothesis, hypothetical, what-if, what if, conjecture
- assertionsassertions, asserting, assert, statements, stating
- conditionalsif, then, if clause, if clauses, else
- logic wordsand, or, not, therefore, ergo
- supposed toExpected or required
- be supposed toExpected by rule or norm
- I supposeTentative concession phrase
- is supposed toExpected to do/be
- was supposed toExpected but didn't
- supposed to be
supposed, supposing, supposedly, supposes, supposition, presuppose, presupposition, presupposed, presupposing