Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to hypothesize
Participle: hypothesized
Gerund: hypothesizing
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | hypothesize |
| you | hypothesize |
| he;she;it | hypothesizes |
| we | hypothesize |
| you | hypothesize |
| they | hypothesize |
Perfect
| I | have hypothesized |
| you | have hypothesized |
| he;she;it | has hypothesized |
| we | have hypothesized |
| you | have hypothesized |
| they | have hypothesized |
Past
| I | hypothesized |
| you | hypothesized |
| he;she;it | hypothesized |
| we | hypothesized |
| you | hypothesized |
| they | hypothesized |
Pluperfect
| I | had hypothesized |
| you | had hypothesized |
| he;she;it | had hypothesized |
| we | had hypothesized |
| you | had hypothesized |
| they | had hypothesized |
Future
| I | will hypothesize |
| you | will hypothesize |
| he;she;it | will hypothesize |
| we | will hypothesize |
| you | will hypothesize |
| they | will hypothesize |
Future Perfect
| I | will have hypothesized |
| you | will have hypothesized |
| he;she;it | will have hypothesized |
| we | will have hypothesized |
| you | will have hypothesized |
| they | will have hypothesized |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | hypothesize |
| you | hypothesize |
| he;she;it | hypothesize |
| we | hypothesize |
| you | hypothesize |
| they | hypothesize |
Perfect
| I | have hypothesized |
| you | have hypothesized |
| he;she;it | have hypothesized |
| we | have hypothesized |
| you | have hypothesized |
| they | have hypothesized |
Imperfect
| I | hypothesized |
| you | hypothesized |
| he;she;it | hypothesized |
| we | hypothesized |
| you | hypothesized |
| they | hypothesized |
Pluperfect
| I | had hypothesized |
| you | had hypothesized |
| he;she;it | had hypothesized |
| we | had hypothesized |
| you | had hypothesized |
| they | had hypothesized |
Conditional
Present
| I | would hypothesize |
| you | would hypothesize |
| he;she;it | would hypothesize |
| we | would hypothesize |
| you | would hypothesize |
| they | would hypothesize |
Perfect
| I | would have hypothesized |
| you | would have hypothesized |
| he;she;it | would have hypothesized |
| we | would have hypothesized |
| you | would have hypothesized |
| they | would have hypothesized |
Imperative
| you | hypothesize |
| we | Let's hypothesize |
| you | hypothesize |
Verbs conjugated like 'hypothesize'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'hypothesize'
hypothesise,
hypothetize,
apotheosize,
hyphenize,
hypostasize,
hypothecate,
hypotonize,
synthesize,
anæsthesize,
antithesize,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
- to deem something true without verification or proof
- arread, assume, conject, conjecture, daresay, dope, go out on a limb, guess, guesstimate, imagine, infer, overhope, posit, postulate, presume, reckon, speculate, suppose, suspect, take a stab at, take something as read, ween
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. English hypothesis
3. Proto-Indo-European *-id-
4. Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
5. Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
6. Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
7. Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor.
8. Late Latin -izōder.
9. Middle French -iserbor.
10. Middle English -isen
11. English -ize
12. English hypothesize
13. From hypothesis + -ize.
Sample Sentences
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When hormones signal breast cells to divide more rapidly, scientists hypothesize, they increase breast cancer risk by causing precancerous or cancerous cells to multiply. [1996, Public Health Reports, U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Public Health Service, Health Resources Administration:]
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Census response is thus a reasonable proxy for civicminded attitudes and cooperation that are hypothesized to improve governmental performance. [2000, Stephen F. Knack, Social Capital and the Quality of Government: Evidence from the United States, page 11:]
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Dahood hypothesizes an occurrence of a verb rihham ('to conceive, enwomb') [2007, John Goldingay, David Payne, Isaiah 40-55 Vol 2: A Critical and Exegetical Commentary, Continuum International Publishing Group, →ISBN:]
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I don’t dispute that some cases of this sort—involving a subject who differentially doubts what, pretheoretically, we would take to be one and the same thought-content, entertained twice—might be best described by hypothesizing a difference in content. [2007 December 29, Sanford Goldberg, “Must Differences in Cognitive Value be Transparent?”, in Erkenntnis, volume 69, number 2, →DOI:]