Synonyms of postulating

postulating

verb

present participle of postulate

as in saying

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

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

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

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

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of postulating

There’s no point postulating a soul that might rise beyond the reach of artificial illumination, because the very vault of the Universe is inscribed with radiant diagrams. — Wyatt Williams, Harpers Magazine, 2 June 2026

Allen’s exhibitions have often been accompanied by press releases that do heavy interpretive lifting, postulating formal qualities that don’t always match what’s on view. — Maximilíano Durón, ARTnews.com, 6 May 2026