Synonyms for supposed
səˈpoʊzd, -ˈpoʊ zɪdsup·posed

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1. supposed

   Synonyms:
   conceived, fabulous, fanciful, feigned, fictitious, hypothetical, illusory, imaginary, reported, supposititious, theoretical, unreal, untrue, visionary

   Antonyms:
   actual, authentic, certain, demonstrable, developed, essential, genuine, positive, real, substantial, true, unquestionable, veritable

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1. supposed(p)adjective

   required or under orders

   "I'm supposed to be there at ten"; "he was supposed to go to the store"

   Antonyms:
   empirical, empiric, unquestionable, likely, unobligated, probable

2. supposed(a)adjective

   mistakenly believed

   "the supposed existence of ghosts"

   Antonyms:
   unquestionable, empirical, likely, empiric, probable, unobligated

3. alleged(a), so-called, supposedadjective

   doubtful or suspect

   "these so-called experts are no help"

   Antonyms:
   unobligated, unquestionable, likely, empirical, empiric, probable

4. conjectural, divinatory, hypothetical, hypothetic, supposed, suppositional, suppositious, supposititiousadjective

   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"

   Synonyms:
   hypothetic, so-called, supposititious, conjectural, sibylline, supposed(a), divinatory, suppositional, mantic, supposed(p), hypothetical, sibyllic, vatical, suppositious, vatic, alleged(a)

   Antonyms:
   probable, likely, empirical, unobligated, empiric, unquestionable

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1. supposedadjective

   Synonyms:
   assumed, presumed, putative

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1. List of paraphrases for "supposed":

   alleged, presumed, assumed, so-called, purported

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1. Katie Wright:

   April 11 was the worst day of my life, a police officer, who is supposed to serve and protect, took so much away from us. She took our baby boy away from us with a single gun shot to his heart and shattered mine.

2. Jeb Bush:

   Apparently there's a little confusion that all family members are supposed to be clones of one another.

3. Chris Patten:

   People have known exactly why there shouldn't be an extradition agreement with China for years, the argument that it's better to have an extradition treaty than to abduct people illegally from Hong Kong -- are people really supposed to believe that ?

4. Shoshana Bernstein:

   If someone tells you if you give your baby daughter a shot she's going to have cancer in 10 years, what's a mom supposed to do with that information? i sort of became known as the person to call when you had a question.

5. Nathan Darsch:

   What was especially egregious was how enforcement was supposed to be handled at Trinity. They put the responsibility of these policies being enforced on the educators, so if students weren't wearing masks, it wasn't necessarily the student that got in trouble – it was the teacher.