Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • intransitive verb To assert as a hypothesis.
  • intransitive verb To form a hypothesis.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To form hypotheses. Also hypothesise, hypothetize.
  • To assume as a hypothesis.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb US to hypothesise

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • verb to believe especially on uncertain or tentative grounds

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Examples

  • One reason for this phenomenon, the authors hypothesize, is that indulgence guilt is a “hot” emotion, leading to intense but momentary pangs of conscience.

    Primary Sources 2007

  • One reason for this phenomenon, the authors hypothesize, is that indulgence guilt is a “hot” emotion, leading to intense but momentary pangs of conscience.

    Primary Sources 2007

  • We shall "hypothesize" that all the immigrants would be peaceful; if they weren't then crime and/or security measures would destroy the rich country.

    How Markets Value the Welfare of the Poor: Follow-up to A Non-Socratic Dialogue, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

  • Stanley Kubrick did not "hypothesize" a doomsday device, they actually existed.

    Strangelove 2006

  • If Obama wanted to hypothesize to make a point, why not make up an organization name as well instead of naming an actual and opposing political group and "hypothesize" about those danged furriners controlling their message?

    Jihad Monitor 2010

  • She said she would not "hypothesize" whether she would support Lyons heading Rio Nuevo.

    unknown title 2009

  • She said she would not "hypothesize" whether she would support Lyons heading Rio Nuevo.

    unknown title 2009

  • Debate is not about a bunch of catty, uninformative, "Fox-News"-like blabber about occasional spelling mistakes, errors in academic trivia and how their knowledge in NewSpeak do's-and-don'ts (e.g. don't use "hypothesize" for anyone other than the originator of an idea no matter how far buried in the recesses of time, apparently) empowers them with a metaphysical prescience to evaluate in some small way who is 'serious' in an academic field in absence of mindful studiousness and profound contemplation of the (un)read material.

    Archive 2008-02-01 2008

  • Debate is not about a bunch of catty, uninformative, "Fox-News"-like blabber about occasional spelling mistakes, errors in academic trivia and how their knowledge in NewSpeak do's-and-don'ts (e.g. don't use "hypothesize" for anyone other than the originator of an idea no matter how far buried in the recesses of time, apparently) empowers them with a metaphysical prescience to evaluate in some small way who is 'serious' in an academic field in absence of mindful studiousness and profound contemplation of the (un)read material.

    How debate is done in the hive 2008

  • He's A) misunderstood what "hypothesize" means, B) took my usage of "blasphemous" out of context and C) misread "Massimo Pallottino hypothesized in 1979 that Tarχies refers to Tages ..." to mean that I somehow credit Pallottino "for the origins of the legend of Tages".

    How debate is done in the hive 2008

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