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say it: suh-POHZD
supposed is an adjective meaning "required or under orders". It carries 4 recorded senses.
required or under orders
“I'm supposed to be there at ten”
“he was supposed to go to the store”
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”
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for supposed come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.