Antonyms for supposes


Grammar : Verb
Spell : suh-pohz
Phonetic Transcription : səˈpoʊz


Definition of supposes

Origin :
  • early 14c., "to assume as the basis of argument," from Old French supposer "to assume," probably a replacement of *suppondre (influenced by Old French poser "put, place"), from Latin supponere "put or place under," from sub "under" + ponere "put, place" (see position). Meaning "to admit as possible, to believe to be true" is from 1520s.
  • verb assume, guess
  • verb believe
Example sentences :
  • It supposes dualism and not unity in nature and consciousness.
  • Extract from : « Essays, First Series » by Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • No one supposes certain French novels to be a representation of ordinary French life.
  • Extract from : « Symposium » by Plato
  • He supposes a day of retribution, in which the good are to be rewarded and the wicked punished.
  • Extract from : « Gorgias » by Plato
  • It supposes the body to continue and to be in another world what it has become in this.
  • Extract from : « Gorgias » by Plato
  • Every universal truth which we express in words, implies or supposes every other truth.
  • Extract from : « Nature » by Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • And do you suppose that any one who knows what things he ought to do supposes that he ought not to do them?
  • Extract from : « The Memorabilia » by Xenophon
  • He is dying to conform to anything that he supposes to be the discipline of his class.
  • Extract from : « Roland Cashel » by Charles James Lever
  • That supposes that we have a choice; but my father thinks we have no choice.
  • Extract from : « Tony Butler » by Charles James Lever
  • To acquit myself with credit is not so easy as Don Baltazar supposes.
  • Extract from : « The Pearl of the Antilles, or An Artist in Cuba » by Walter Goodman
  • Even a hangman, one supposes, has some sort of human feeling.
  • Extract from : « Recollections » by David Christie Murray

Synonyms for supposes

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