supposing
conjunction
sup·pos·ing sə-ˈpō-ziŋ 
: if by way of hypothesis : on the assumption that
supposing I did agree with you
Word History
First Known Use
1663, in the meaning defined above
supposing
verb
1
as in estimating
to decide the size, amount, number, or distance of (something) without actual measurement if we suppose a minimum profit of $10,000 from the charity auction, we should be able to pay for the family's medical expenses Synonyms & Similar Words
Relevance
- estimating
- figuring
- guessing
- calculating
- making
- putting
- conjecturing
- judging
- gauging
- reckoning
- placing
- inferring
- calling
- concluding
- deducing
- reasoning
- extrapolating
- understanding
- gaging
- gathering
Antonyms & Near Antonyms
- measuring
- scaling
- calibrating
- computing
- working out
2
as in assuming
to form an opinion from little or no evidence what do you suppose he's going to do with the prize money he won? Synonyms & Similar Words
- assuming
- guessing
- presuming
- suspecting
- imagining
- thinking
- conjecturing
- speculating
- surmising
- believing
- inferring
- deducing
- daresaying
- suspicioning
- expecting
- concluding
- hypothesizing
- theorizing
- hypothecating
- conceiving
- gathering
- judging
- reckoning
- taking
Antonyms & Near Antonyms
- proving
- establishing
- demonstrating
- ascertaining
- validating
- documenting
- determining
- substantiating
- learning
- finding out
3
as in thinking
to have as an opinion voters wrongly supposed that the new mayor would be opposed to letting hazardous waste be transported through the city Synonyms & Similar Words
- thinking
- believing
- considering
- imagining
- guessing
- figuring
- feeling
- deeming
- perceiving
- assuming
- conceiving
- judging
- presuming
- reckoning
- holding
- allowing
- esteeming
- regarding
- depending
- relying
- presupposing
- accepting
- viewing
- trusting
- surmising
- concluding
- inferring
- deducing
Antonyms & Near Antonyms
- suspecting
- doubting
- questioning
- rejecting
- distrusting
- disbelieving
- mistrusting
- discrediting
4
as in saying
to take as true or as a fact without actual proof had always supposed that her father would bequeath the family farm to her Synonyms & Similar Words
- assuming
- saying
- presuming
- believing
- thinking
- presupposing
- postulating
- premising
- guessing
- concluding
- figuring
- hypothesizing
- dreaming
- suspecting
- imagining
- insisting
- hypothecating
- accepting
- inferring
- perceiving
- deducing
- claiming
- conjecturing
- speculating
- taking for granted
- fancying
- crediting
- judging
- declaring
- surmising
- contending
- asserting
- conceiving
- swallowing
- alleging
- maintaining
- theorizing
- avowing
- professing
- reckoning
- taking
- averring
- affirming
- gathering
- suspicioning
- preconceiving
- avouching
Antonyms & Near Antonyms
- doubting
- controverting
- denying
- discounting
- questioning
- disputing
- wondering (about)
- disbelieving
- discrediting
- challenging
- distrusting
- rejecting
- disagreeing (with)
- disclaiming
- repudiating
- disavowing
- mistrusting
- disproving
- refuting
- rebutting
- disowning
- belying
- confuting
- ichthyosaurid
- Ichthyosauridae
- ichthyosauridaes
- ichthyosauroid
- ichthyosaurs
- ichthyosaurus
- ichthyosauruses
- ichthyoses
- Ichthyotomi
- ichthyotomous
- ichthys
- foraged (for)
- foraged for
- forager
- foragers
- forages
- forages (for)
- forages for
- foraging
- foraging (for)
- foraging ant
- foraging for
- Foraker, Mount
- foralite
- foram