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HYPOTHESISE

Dictionary entry overview: What does hypothesise mean?

• HYPOTHESISE (verb)
The verb HYPOTHESISE has 1 sense:

1. to believe especially on uncertain or tentative grounds

Familiarity information: HYPOTHESISE used as a verb is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• HYPOTHESISE (verb)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

To believe especially on uncertain or tentative grounds

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Synonyms:

conjecture; hypothesise; hypothesize; speculate; theorise; theorize; hypothecate; suppose

Context example:

Scientists supposed that large dinosaurs lived in swamps

Hypernyms (to "hypothesise" is one way to...):

anticipate; expect (regard something as probable or likely)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "hypothesise"):

construct; reconstruct; retrace (reassemble mentally)

develop; explicate; formulate (elaborate, as of theories and hypotheses)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s that CLAUSE

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