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supposed

• (s) required or under orders
  • I'm supposed to be there at ten
  • he was supposed to go to the store
• (s) mistakenly believed
  • the supposed existence of ghosts
• (s) doubtful or suspect
  • these so-called experts are no help
  so-called, alleged,
• (s) based primarily on surmise rather than adequate evidence
  • theories about the extinction of dinosaurs are still highly conjectural
  • the supposed reason for his absence
  • suppositious reconstructions of dead languages
  • hypothetical situation
  conjectural, hypothetic, hypothetical, suppositional, suppositious, supposititious, divinatory,

Synonyms

so-called alleged conjectural hypothetic hypothetical suppositional suppositious supposititious divinatory

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