Synonyms of hypothesizing

hypothesizing

verb

present participle of hypothesize

as in saying

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

• saying
• assuming
• presuming
• believing
• thinking
• postulating
• supposing
• guessing
• concluding
• presupposing
• figuring
• dreaming
• imagining
• accepting
• premising
• insisting
• hypothecating
• inferring
• speculating
• suspecting
• deducing
• taking for granted
• theorizing
• crediting
• claiming
• judging
• swallowing
• conjecturing
• declaring
• perceiving
• asserting
• maintaining
• surmising
• gathering
• conceiving
• contending
• fancying
• affirming
• alleging
• taking
• suspicioning
• reckoning
• averring
• professing
• avowing
• preconceiving
• avouching

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• questioning
• doubting
• discounting
• disputing
• challenging
• wondering (about)
• denying
• discrediting
• disbelieving
• controverting
• rejecting
• distrusting
• disagreeing (with)
• disclaiming
• repudiating
• disavowing
• mistrusting
• refuting
• disproving
• rebutting
• disowning
• belying
• confuting

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of hypothesizing

Lora hoped aloud that the little girl was still alive, hypothesizing that her deceased brother helped push her to safety. — Robert McGreevy, FOXNews.com, 30 July 2026

That’s why some people are hypothesizing that vitamin D can slow aging. — Sohaib Imtiaz, Verywell Health, 28 June 2026

Barnett’s hypothesizing about the motives of a nonexistent male child of Barack Obama is part of a conservative fixation that’s detached from historical reality. — Jonathan Chait, The Atlantic, 1 May 2026

They were allowed to spend seven days hypothesizing experiments and then the results were compared to what two human AI safety researchers had been able to do in a similar timeline. — Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 28 Apr. 2026

Just one week ago, a report hypothesizing on how AI could disrupt the economy sent the Dow tumbling by more than 800 points. — John Towfighi, CNN Money, 3 Mar. 2026

There’s another line of hypothesizing that says that development of red fall color discourages insects from feeding on leaves in the fall. — Paul Cappiello, Louisville Courier Journal, 14 Nov. 2025

By hypothesizing that a phase of relentless, exponential expansion preceded and set up the hot Big Bang, inflation implies the following. — Big Think, 14 Oct. 2025

The notion that vaccines cause autism was born out of a fraudulent 1998 study, hypothesizing that the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine caused intestinal inflammation, which, in turn, led to the development of autism. — Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 26 Sep. 2025