supposed

Definitions of supposed in various dictionaries:

verb - express a supposition

verb - expect, believe, or suppose

verb - to believe especially on uncertain or tentative grounds

verb - take for granted or as a given

verb - require as a necessary antecedent or precondition

adj - required or under orders

adj - mistakenly believed

adj - doubtful or suspect

adj - based primarily on surmise rather than adequate evidence

Presumed to be true or real without conclusive evidence.

Intended: medication that is supposed to relieve pain.

Required: He is supposed to go to the store.

Permitted: We are not supposed to smoke here.

The central meaning shared by these adj ectives is “put forth or accepted as being true on inconclusive grounds”: the supposed cause of inflation; conjectural criticism; the site of a hypothetical colony; a foundling’s putative father; the reputed author of the article; suppositious reconstructions of dead languages; supposititious hypotheses.

verb - to assume to be true

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