| suppose | | |
| v. (communication) | 1. say, suppose | express a supposition.; "Let us say that he did not tell the truth"; "Let's say you had a lot of money--what would you do?" |
| ~ speculate | talk over conjecturally, or review in an idle or casual way and with an element of doubt or without sufficient reason to reach a conclusion.; "We were speculating whether the President had to resign after the scandal" |
| v. (cognition) | 2. guess, imagine, opine, reckon, suppose, think | expect, believe, or suppose.; "I imagine she earned a lot of money with her new novel"; "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" |
| ~ anticipate, expect | regard something as probable or likely.; "The meteorologists are expecting rain for tomorrow" |
| ~ suspect | hold in suspicion; believe to be guilty.; "The U.S. suspected Bin Laden as the mastermind behind the terrorist attacks" |
| v. (cognition) | 3. conjecture, hypothecate, hypothesise, hypothesize, speculate, suppose, theorise, theorize | to believe especially on uncertain or tentative grounds.; "Scientists supposed that large dinosaurs lived in swamps" |
| ~ reconstruct, retrace, construct | reassemble mentally.; "reconstruct the events of 20 years ago" |
| ~ anticipate, expect | regard something as probable or likely.; "The meteorologists are expecting rain for tomorrow" |
| ~ formulate, explicate, develop | elaborate, as of theories and hypotheses.; "Could you develop the ideas in your thesis" |
| v. (cognition) | 4. presuppose, suppose | take for granted or as a given; suppose beforehand.; "I presuppose that you have done your work" |
| ~ assume, presume, take for granted | take to be the case or to be true; accept without verification or proof.; "I assume his train was late" |
| ~ postulate, posit | take as a given; assume as a postulate or axiom.; "He posited three basic laws of nature" |
| ~ premiss, premise | take something as preexisting and given. |
| v. (cognition) | 5. presuppose, suppose | require as a necessary antecedent or precondition.; "This step presupposes two prior ones" |
| ~ logic | the branch of philosophy that analyzes inference. |
| ~ imply | suggest as a logically necessary consequence; in logic. |
| perhaps | | |
| adv. | 1. maybe, mayhap, peradventure, perchance, perhaps, possibly | by chance.; "perhaps she will call tomorrow"; "we may possibly run into them at the concert"; "it may peradventure be thought that there never was such a time" |
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