Synonyms of hypothesized

hypothesized

verb

past tense of hypothesize

as in assumed

to take as true or as a fact without actual proof

if we hypothesize that current population trends continue for the next 50 years

Synonyms & Similar Words

• assumed
• said
• presumed
• believed
• postulated
• thought
• supposed
• concluded
• presupposed
• guessed
• premised
• figured
• dreamed
• accepted
• insisted
• inferred
• suspected
• hypothecated
• imagined
• deduced
• took for granted
• speculated
• surmised
• conjectured
• claimed
• credited
• theorized
• perceived
• swallowed
• declared
• judged
• asserted
• conceived
• alleged
• maintained
• contended
• affirmed
• gathered
• suspicioned
• fancied
• reckoned
• averred
• professed
• took
• preconceived
• avowed
• avouched

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• doubted
• challenged
• questioned
• disputed
• wondered (about)
• discounted
• disagreed (with)
• discredited
• denied
• controverted
• rejected
• distrusted
• repudiated
• disavowed
• disclaimed
• disbelieved
• mistrusted
• disowned
• refuted
• disproved
• rebutted
• belied
• confuted

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of hypothesized

Before the games kicked off, my colleague Christopher Bonanos hypothesized that if all went swimmingly, this World Cup traffic experiment could be a test for future action. — John Surico, Curbed, 24 July 2026

DePodesta hypothesized that playing catcher at altitude can potentially influence a hitter on offense, lending credence to the idea that his game might be more complete elsewhere. — Sam Blum, New York Times, 22 July 2026

While pinning down the exact reason why these states buck the trend is difficult, Hoell hypothesized the region’s unique summer monsoon rains could alleviate the risk. — Noah Haggerty, Los Angeles Times, 22 July 2026

This skewing has been hypothesized as a contributor to the variability in symptoms of Marfan in families with the same mutation. — Roxanne Khamsi, The Atlantic, 7 July 2026

Despite having a brain not much bigger than a chimp, researchers hypothesized that Homo naledi, as the species was named, deliberately buried its dead in the confines of the cave. — Katie Hunt, CNN Money, 24 June 2026

The researchers hypothesized that some of those surfaces would be more catalytically active than others. — Chris Lee, ArsTechnica, 9 June 2026

Thornton hypothesized at the time. — Emlyn Travis, Entertainment Weekly, 26 May 2026

One theory that has popped up is that the virus originated from a bird watching landfill in Ushuaia, located at the southern tip of Argentina, where a couple who were infected with the virus visited, Argentinian officials first hypothesized. — ABC News, 12 May 2026