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- Dictionarysupposed/səˈpəʊzd/
adjective
- 1. generally assumed or believed to be the case, but not necessarily so: "people admire their supposed industriousness" Similar
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used to show that you do not believe that something or someone really is what many other people consider them to be: a supposed genius. The costs of the programme outweigh its supposed benefits. Fewer examples. Older people tend to be quite conservative and a bit suspicious of any supposed advances.
The meaning of SUPPOSED is pretended. How to use supposed in a sentence. pretended; alleged; held as an opinion : believed; also : mistakenly believed : imagined…
If you say that something is supposed to happen, you mean that it is planned or expected. Sometimes this use suggests that the thing does not really happen in this way.
If you are supposed to do something, it means that you'd better get to it. If you're supposed to go to your grandma's house for dinner, then your grandmother expects you. Something that's required is supposed, and something that's assumed to be true — even if it's really not — is also supposed.
Definition of supposed adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
What does the word supposed mean? There are nine meanings listed in OED's entry for the word supposed, four of which are labelled obsolete. See ‘Meaning & use’ for definitions, usage, and quotation evidence. See meaning & use. How common is the word supposed? About 5 occurrences per million words in modern written English. See frequency.
Supposed definition: merely thought or alleged to be such, on a very questionable basis; imagined. See examples of SUPPOSED used in a sentence.
