Nearby Words
| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | presumed |
| Synonyms: | alleged, assumed, conjectural, hypothetical, putative, reputed, supposititious, theoretical |
| Main Entry: | suppose |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | assume, guess |
| Synonyms: | accept, admit, brainstorm, calculate, conjecture, cook up, dare-say, deem, divine, dream, estimate, expect, figure, go out on a limb, grant, guesstimate, hazard a guess, hypothesize, imagine, infer, judge, opine, posit, predicate, presume, presuppose, pretend, spark, speculate, surmise, suspect, take, take for granted, theorize, think, understand |
| Antonyms: | calculate, know, measure |
| Main Entry: | suppose |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | believe |
| Synonyms: | assume, be afraid, conceive, conclude, conjecture, consider, deem, dream, expect, fancy, feel, gather, have a hunch, have sneaking suspicion, hypothesize, imagine, judge, postulate, pretend, reckon, regard, suspect, swear by, take, take as gospel truth, take stock in, think, understand, view |
| Antonyms: | disbelieve, know |
| Main Entry: | alleged |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | asserted, often doubtful |
| Synonyms: | averred, declared, described, dubious, ostensible, pretended, professed, purported, questionable, so-called, stated, supposed, suspect, suspicious |
| Antonyms: | certain, definite, sure |
| Main Entry: | apparent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | seeming, not proven real |
| Synonyms: | credible, illusive, illusory, likely, ostensible, outward, plausible, possible, probable, semblant, specious, superficial, supposed, suppositious |
| Antonyms: | doubtful, dubious, equivocal, hidden, improbable, obscure, questionable, real, uncertain, unclear, unlikely |
| Main Entry: | assumed |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | expected |
| Synonyms: | accepted, conjectured, connoted, counted on, given, granted, hypothesized, hypothetical, inferred, postulated, presumed, presupposed, supposed, suppositional, surmised, tacit, taken as known, taken for granted, understood |
| Antonyms: | unassumed, unexpected |
| Main Entry: | conjectural |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | speculative |
| Synonyms: | academic, assumed, doubtful, figured, guessing, guesstimated, hypothetical, on a hunch, on a long shot, putative, reputed, supposed, suppositional, suppositious, suppositive, surmised, surmising, suspect, tentative, theoretical, uncertain, unresolved |
| Antonyms: | certain, factual, proven, real, truthful |
| Main Entry: | hypothetical |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | guessed, assumed |
| Synonyms: | academic, assumptive, casual, concocted, conditional, conjecturable, conjectural, contestable, contingent, debatable, disputable, doubtful, equivocal, imaginary, imagined, indefinite, indeterminate, postulated, presumptive, presupposed, pretending, problematic, provisory, putative, questionable, refutable, speculative, stochastic, supposed, suppositional, suppositious, suspect, theoretic, theoretical, uncertain, unconfirmed, vague |
| Antonyms: | calculated, confirmed, factual, measured, proved, proven, real, reliable, truthful |
| Main Entry: | imaginary |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | fictitious, invented |
| Synonyms: | abstract, apocryphal, apparitional, assumed, chimerical, deceptive, delusive, dreamed-up, dreamlike, dreamy, fabulous, fancied, fanciful, fantastic, fictional, figmental, fool's paradise, hallucinatory, hypothetical, ideal, illusive, illusory, imaginative, imagined, legendary, made-up, mythological, nonexistent, notional, phantasmal, phantasmic, quixotic, shadowy, spectral, supposed, supposititious, theoretical, trumped up, unreal, unsubstantial, visionary, whimsical |
| Notes: | imaginary means not based on fact while imaginative means marked by independence and creativity in thought or action |
| Antonyms: | existing, factual, genuine, physical, real, substantial, true |
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