supposing

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /səˈpoʊzɪŋ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /səˈpəʊzɪŋ/

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• Rhymes: -əʊzɪŋ
• Hyphenation: sup‧pos‧ing

Verb

supposing

1. present participle and gerund of suppose

Noun

supposing (plural supposings)

1. The act of making a supposition.
   • 1837, The Dublin University Magazine:

     She could have joined most comfortably in all their supposings, and suspicions, and doubts, and prognostications, but the honour of the family was too nearly concerned to allow free reins to her tongue.

Conjunction

supposing

1. if hypothetically (optionally followed by that)

   Let’s go swimming in the lake. - Supposing there are/were 'gators.

   • 2013, Flora Annie Steel, “The Three Sillies”, in English Fairy Tales‎^[1]:

     Supposing our daughter was to marry her sweetheart, and supposing they was to have a son, and supposing he was to grow to man’s estate, and supposing he was to come down to draw cider like as we’re doing, and supposing that there mallet was to fall on his head and kill him, how dreadful it would be!

Translations

if hypothetically

• Bulgarian: в случай че (v slučaj če)
• Vietnamese: giả sử (vi), giá sử (vi)

Derived terms

• supposingly