hypothesise

1. 1.

   to believe especially on uncertain or tentative grounds

   “Scientists supposed that large dinosaurs lived in swamps”

   Synonymsspeculatetheorizetheoriseconjecturehypothesizehypothecatesuppose

   Broaderexpect

   Narrowerreconstructexplicate

Other forms of hypothesise

past tense

hypothesised·

present participle

hypothesising·

third person

hypothesises·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about hypothesise

What does hypothesise mean?

hypothesise means "to believe especially on uncertain or tentative grounds".

How many syllables are in hypothesise?

hypothesise has 4 syllables: hy-po-the-sise. The stress falls on "po".

What is another word for hypothesise?

Close synonyms include speculate, theorize, theorise, conjecture, hypothesize. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is hypothesise a common word?

hypothesise is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.