Synonyms of supposing

supposing

verb

present participle of suppose

1

as in estimating

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

if we suppose a minimum profit of $10,000 from the charity auction, we should be able to pay for the family's medical expenses

Synonyms & Similar Words

• estimating
• calculating
• figuring
• guessing
• making
• gauging
• judging
• putting
• placing
• conjecturing
• reckoning
• calling
• concluding
• reasoning
• understanding
• inferring
• deducing
• extrapolating
• gathering

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• measuring
• scaling
• computing
• calibrating
• working out

2

as in assuming

to form an opinion from little or no evidence

what do you suppose he's going to do with the prize money he won?

Synonyms & Similar Words

• assuming
• guessing
• presuming
• suspecting
• imagining
• thinking
• speculating
• conjecturing
• surmising
• believing
• inferring
• suspicioning
• daresaying
• deducing
• concluding
• expecting
• hypothesizing
• theorizing
• gathering
• conceiving
• judging
• hypothecating
• reckoning
• taking

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• establishing
• proving
• demonstrating
• documenting
• determining
• ascertaining
• learning
• validating
• substantiating
• finding out

3

as in thinking

to have as an opinion

voters wrongly supposed that the new mayor would be opposed to letting hazardous waste be transported through the city

Synonyms & Similar Words

• thinking
• believing
• considering
• guessing
• imagining
• figuring
• feeling
• deeming
• perceiving
• conceiving
• judging
• assuming
• holding
• allowing
• regarding
• esteeming
• reckoning
• presuming
• depending
• relying
• accepting
• viewing
• trusting
• presupposing
• inferring
• concluding
• surmising
• deducing

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• suspecting
• doubting
• questioning
• rejecting
• distrusting
• mistrusting
• discrediting
• disbelieving

4

as in saying

to take as true or as a fact without actual proof

had always supposed that her father would bequeath the family farm to her

Synonyms & Similar Words

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

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

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

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of supposing

More recently, other experts have advised American farmers to go all out growing soybeans, supposing they will be needed by the Chinese or somebody. — Cynthia Zarin, Harpers Magazine, 4 Aug. 2026

Even supposing the pledges in the 1990s documents amounted to a crime, the legal deadline for bringing mortgage fraud charges has expired. — Aysha Bagchi, USA Today, 8 Dec. 2025