Synonyms of postulated

postulated

verb

past tense of postulate

as in assumed

to take as true or as a fact without actual proof

postulates that all people are born with certain rights that can never be taken away from them

Synonyms & Similar Words

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

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• doubted
• challenged
• disputed
• questioned
• 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 postulated

This isn’t speculation but rather something already postulated by Infantino during the 2026 edition. — Patrick Sung Cuadrado, CNN Money, 30 July 2026

Originally postulated by German astronomer Heinrich Wilhelm Matthias Olbers in the early 19th century, the theory suggested that a rocky planet, roughly the size of our Moon, existed between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. — Richard Edwards, Space.com, 23 July 2026

In 1905, Einstein had postulated that the speed of light is constant in a vacuum and independent of the observer’s motion. — Ameya Paleja, Interesting Engineering, 24 Apr. 2026

Some have seen a purely strategic purpose in settlement, but others have postulated an intent to use the colony as a springboard for economic exploitation of the area. — Britannica Editors, Encyclopedia Britannica, 19 Mar. 2026

Homan, meanwhile, postulated that she was being unfairly targeted because of the controversy on the men’s side. — Julia Frankel, Chicago Tribune, 15 Feb. 2026

Fluorescence microscopy—a biologist’s window into the cell—had hit the diffraction limit of about 200 nanometers (or roughly half the wavelength of visible light), which had been postulated a century earlier by physicist Ernst Abbe. — IEEE Spectrum, 13 Dec. 2025

Gordon Moore, a chip expert and co-founder of Intel, postulated that the number of transistors on microchips would double every 24 months or so thanks to advances in miniaturization technology. — John Ruwitch, NPR, 4 Dec. 2025

That’s why Nobel Prize-winning chemist Christian Anfinsen postulated in 1972 that DNA alone should fully determine the final structure a protein takes. — Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 28 Nov. 2025