Meanings
present singular third person hypothesizes · participle present hypothesizing · participle past hypothesized · past hypothesized · alternative hypothesise
- BritishEnglishOxfordUSambitransitiveTo assume or assert tentatively on uncertain grounds.
Dahood hypothesizes an occurrence of a verb rihham ('to conceive, enwomb')
2007, John Goldingay, David Payne, Isaiah 40-55 Vol 2: A Critical and Exegetical Commentary, Continuum International Publishing Group, →ISBN3 more examples
When hormones signal breast cells to divide more rapidly, scientists hypothesize, they increase breast cancer risk by causing precancerous or cancerous cells to multiply.
1996, Public Health Reports, U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Public Health Service, Health Resources AdministrationCensus response is thus a reasonable proxy for civicminded attitudes and cooperation that are hypothesized to improve governmental performance.
2000, Stephen F. Knack, Social Capital and the Quality of Government: Evidence from the United States, page 11I don’t dispute that some cases of this sort—involving a subject who differentially doubts what, pretheoretically, we would take to be one and the same thought-content, entertained twice—might be best described by hypothesizing a difference in content.
2007 December 29, Sanford Goldberg, “Must Differences in Cognitive Value be Transparent?”, in Erkenntnis, volume 69, number 2, →DOISynonyms: hypotheticate, guess, arread, assume, fancy, conject, conjecture, daresay
Synonyms & antonyms
verbTo assume or assert tentatively on uncertain grounds.
More synonyms by meaning
verbto believe especially on uncertain or tentative grounds
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
Translations
Bulgarian предполагам
- предполагам (predpolagam)to believe or assert
Chinese Mandarin 假設 /假设, 推測 /推测
- 假設 /假设 (jiǎshè)to believe or assert
- 推測 /推测 (tuīcè)to believe or assert
Czech hypotetizovat
- hypotetizovatto believe or assert
Danish hypotetisere
- hypotetisereto believe or assert
Finnish jossitella, arvailla
- jossitellato believe or assert
- arvaillato believe or assert
- arvuutellato believe or assert
French émettre l'hypothèse, faire l'hypothèse
- émettre l'hypothèseto believe or assert
- faire l'hypothèseto believe or assert
- supposerto believe or assert
German vermuten
- vermutento believe or assert
Icelandic setja fram tilgátu, leggja fram tilgátu
- setja fram tilgátuto believe or assert
- leggja fram tilgátuto believe or assert
- gefa sérto believe or assert
- setja sem svo aðto believe or assert
- gera ráð fyrirto believe or assert
- ganga út fráto believe or assert
Italian ipotizzare
- ipotizzareto believe or assert
Japanese 仮定する
- 仮定する (katei suru)to believe or assert
Māori marohi, mārohirohi
- marohito believe or assert
- mārohirohito believe or assert
Portuguese supor
- suporto believe or assert
Romanian emite ipoteze, face ipoteze
- emite ipotezeto believe or assert
- face ipotezeto believe or assert
Slovak hypotetizovať
- hypotetizovaťto believe or assert
Spanish hipotetizar
- hipotetizarto believe or assert
Swedish hypotetisera
- hypotetiserato believe or assert
Ukrainian будувати гіпотезу, висувати гіпотезу
- будувати гіпотезу (buduvaty)to believe or assert
- висувати гіпотезу (vysuvaty)to believe or assert
- робити припущення (robyty)to believe or assert
Cite this entry
hypothesize. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/hypothesize
“hypothesize.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/hypothesize. Accessed November 2, 2026.
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