Verb

• S: (v) suppose, say (express a supposition) "Let us say that he did not tell the truth"; "Let's say you had a lot of money--what would you do?"
• direct hypernym / inherited hypernym / sister term
• S: (v) speculate (talk over conjecturally, or review in an idle or casual way and with an element of doubt or without sufficient reason to reach a conclusion) "We were speculating whether the President had to resign after the scandal"
• S: (v) reason (think logically) "The children must learn to reason"
• S: (v) think, cogitate, cerebrate (use or exercise the mind or one's power of reason in order to make inferences, decisions, or arrive at a solution or judgments) "I've been thinking all day and getting nowhere"
• derivationally related form
• sentence frame
• S: (v) think, opine, suppose, imagine, reckon, guess (expect, believe, or suppose) "I imagine she earned a lot of money with her new novel"; "I thought to find her in a bad state"; "he didn't think to find her in the kitchen"; "I guess she is angry at me for standing her up"
• S: (v) speculate, theorize, theorise, conjecture, hypothesize, hypothesise, hypothecate, suppose (to believe especially on uncertain or tentative grounds) "Scientists supposed that large dinosaurs lived in swamps"
• S: (v) presuppose, suppose (take for granted or as a given; suppose beforehand) "I presuppose that you have done your work"
• S: (v) presuppose, suppose (require as a necessary antecedent or precondition) "This step presupposes two prior ones"