- merely thought or alleged to be such, on a very questionable basis; imagined: When one tries to understand more about these supposed gains, they turn out to be nothing more than clever rhetoric.
- accepted or believed to be so, without certain knowledge: This is the supposed site of the ancient temple, based on recent archeological finds.
- assumed for the sake of argument; hypothetical: Given a supposed scenario where you see two students fighting in the schoolyard, how do you handle it?
- the simple past tense and past participle of suppose.
- presumed to be true without certain knowledge
- believed to be true on slight grounds; highly doubtful
- expected or obliged (to)
- expected or obliged not (to)
