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

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

On one hand, pundits have postulated about an inflationary effect as businesses pass on the higher costs to consumers. — Jeff Gapusan, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025

In it, the scientists postulated an increased risk of death in people who fasted intermittently. — Frederik Jötten, Scientific American, 12 Sep. 2025