Synonyms of reckoned

reckoned

verb

past tense of reckon

1

as in estimated

to decide the size, amount, number, or distance of (something) without actual measurement

tried to reckon the size of the crowd at the stadium

Synonyms & Similar Words

• estimated
• calculated
• figured
• guessed
• made
• supposed
• judged
• gauged
• put
• placed
• called
• conjectured
• understood
• concluded
• reasoned
• deduced
• gathered
• extrapolated
• inferred

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• measured
• computed
• calibrated
• scaled
• worked out

2

as in thought

chiefly dialect to have as an opinion

I reckon you must be new to these parts

Synonyms & Similar Words

• thought
• believed
• considered
• guessed
• figured
• imagined
• deemed
• felt
• supposed
• judged
• conceived
• perceived
• held
• assumed
• regarded
• esteemed
• allowed
• accepted
• viewed
• relied
• presumed
• depended
• trusted
• concluded
• surmised
• deduced
• inferred
• presupposed

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• suspected
• doubted
• questioned
• rejected
• distrusted
• mistrusted
• discredited
• disbelieved

3

as in calculated

to determine (a value) by doing the necessary mathematical operations

reckoned the runner's pace by dividing her finishing time by the race distance

Synonyms & Similar Words

• calculated
• figured
• computed
• estimated
• assessed
• measured
• added
• evaluated
• divided
• counted
• multiplied
• worked out
• summed
• subtracted
• deducted
• ciphered
• gauged
• averaged
• scaled
• figured in
• figured out
• totaled
• added up
• allowed (for)
• valued
• calibrated
• appraised
• totalized
• tallied
• solved (for)
• rated
• numbered
• recalculated
• factored (in or into or out)
• itemized
• recomputed
• refigured

4

as in relied

to place reliance or trust

don't reckon on being provided with low-cost housing if you take a summer job there

Synonyms & Similar Words

• relied
• counted
• depended
• calculated
• leaned
• stood on
• looked to
• confided
• trusted
• called on
• entrusted
• figured on
• committed
• banked on

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• suspected
• questioned
• distrusted
• mistrusted

5

as in considered

to think of in a particular way

he was reckoned among the great heroes of his time

Synonyms & Similar Words

• considered
• regarded
• called
• counted
• viewed
• believed
• accounted
• thought
• looked (on or upon)
• felt
• rated
• deemed
• held
• esteemed
• sensed
• imagined
• set down
• took for
• conceived
• fancied

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of reckoned

Ursone reckoned that the distinct rites and language of their marine tribe would, to polite society, resemble hieroglyphics. — Jasper Craven, New Yorker, 24 July 2026

And the guy who loved John Wayne movies and came to do a fine imitation reckoned his should be in that spirit. — Vahe Gregorian july 5, Kansas City Star, 5 July 2026

Every Arab country in the Middle East knows Iran, as never before, is a power to be reckoned with. — Steve Forbes, Forbes.com, 25 June 2026

Skubal reckoned with the highs and lows while also suffering what at first appeared to be an injury scare. — Cody Stavenhagen, New York Times, 25 June 2026

The war without has since compounded Iran’s war within, in ways that the world has hardly reckoned with. — Laura Secor, The Atlantic, 16 June 2026

And then there’s artificial intelligence, the variable nobody has fully reckoned with yet. — John Kennedy, VIBE.com, 9 June 2026

Most recently, late neoliberalism revived a central aspect of 1970s pluralism, retooled as representative diversity—once again under the pressure of political activism, which reckoned with decades of racially exclusionary collecting, exhibiting, and hiring practices at art institutions. — Katy Siegel, Artforum, 2 June 2026

Because consumers would have a little more left over to spend of their paychecks, a five-month suspension would increase federal deficits by $12 billion, BPC reckoned. — Andrea Riquier, USA Today, 11 May 2026