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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | think |
| Synonyms: | believe, conceive, conclude, declare, express an opinion, feel, guess, imagine, judge, presume, say, suggest, suppose, surmise, venture |
| Main Entry: | postulate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | suppose, figure |
| Synonyms: | advance, affirm, assert, assume, aver, estimate, guess, hypothesize, posit, predicate, premise, presuppose, propose, put forward, speculate, suppose, take for granted, theorize |
| Antonyms: | calculate |
| Main Entry: | predict |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | express an outcome in advance |
| Synonyms: | adumbrate, anticipate, augur, be afraid, call, call it, conclude, conjecture, croak, crystal-ball divine, envision, figure, figure out, forebode, forecast, foresee, forespeak, foretell, gather, guess, have a hunch, hazard a guess, infer, judge, make book, omen, portend, presage, presume, prognosticate, prophesy, psych out, read, see coming, see handwriting on wall, size up, soothsay, suppose, surmise, telegraph, think, vaticinate |
| Main Entry: | prediction |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | declaration made in advance |
| Synonyms: | augury, cast, conjecture, crystal gazing, divination, dope, forecast, forecasting, foresight, foretelling, fortune-telling, guess, horoscope, hunch, indicator, of event anticipation, omen, palmistry, presage, prevision, prognosis, prognostication, prophecy, soothsaying, surmising, tip, vaticination, zodiac |
| Main Entry: | presume |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make assumption; believe |
| Synonyms: | assume, bank on, be afraid, conclude, conjecture, consider, count on, depend, figure, gather, guess, infer, jump the gun, posit, postulate, predicate, premise, presuppose, pretend, rely, speculate, suppose, surmise, take for granted, take it, think, trust |
| Notes: | assume means 'suppose to be the case, without proof; take for granted'; presume means 'suppose that something is the case on the basis of probability; take for granted that something exists or is the case' |
| Antonyms: | disbelieve |
| Main Entry: | presumption |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | belief, hypothesis |
| Synonyms: | anticipation, apriorism, assumption, basis, chance, conjecture, grounds, guess, likelihood, opinion, plausibility, posit, postulate, postulation, premise, presupposition, probability, reason, shot, shot in the dark, sneaking suspicion, stab, supposition, surmise, suspicion, thesis |
| Antonyms: | reality, truth |
| Main Entry: | prognosis |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | forecast |
| Synonyms: | cast, diagnosis, expectation, foretelling, guess, prediction, prevision, prognostication, projection, prophecy, speculation, surmise |
| Notes: | a diagnosis is the process of identifying or determining the nature of a diseased condition or the conclusion reached; a prognosis is a prediction of the probable course of a disease or likely outcome of a problem |
| Main Entry: | projection |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | prediction |
| Synonyms: | calculation, computation, estimate, estimation, extrapolation, forecast, guess, prognostication, reckoning |
| Main Entry: | reckon |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | add up; evaluate |
| Synonyms: | account, appraise, approximate, calculate, call, cast, cipher, compute, conjecture, consider, count, count heads, count noses, deem, enumerate, esteem, estimate, figure, figure out, foot, gauge, guess, hold, judge, keep tabs, look upon, number, place, put, rate, regard, run down, square, sum, surmise, take account of, tally, think of, tick off, tot, tot up, total, tote, tote up, view |
| Antonyms: | neglect, subtract |
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