suppositious

Questions about suppositious

What does suppositious mean?

suppositious means "based primarily on surmise rather than adequate evidence".

How many syllables are in suppositious?

suppositious has 5 syllables and divides as sup-po-si-ti-ous under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for suppositious?

Close synonyms include conjectural, divinatory, hypothetical, hypothetic, supposed. 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 suppositious a common word?

suppositious 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.