hypothesizeverb [ I or T ]
uk/haɪˈpɒθ.ə.saɪz/us/haɪˈpɑː.θə.saɪz/formalto give a possible but not yet proved explanation for something:
There's no point hypothesizing about how the accident happened, since we'll never really know.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Guessing, supposing and suspecting
- approximate
- as much idiom
- call
- conjecture
- consider
- deem
- divine
- fall
- jump
- jump to conclusions idiom
- mark
- mark sb down as sth
- misjudge
- pluck
- pluck sth out of the air idiom
- presume
- smell
- speculate
- think
- think of sth/sb
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