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See definition of postulated on Dictionary.com
  • as inassumed
  • as inhypothetical
  • as ininduced
  • as intheoretic
  • as intheoretical

synonyms for postulated

  • accepted
  • granted
  • presumed
  • conjectured
  • connoted
  • given
  • hypothesized
  • inferred
  • presupposed
  • supposed
  • surmised
  • understood
  • counted on
  • hypothetical
  • suppositional
  • tacit
  • taken as known
  • taken for granted
  • analyzed
  • argued
  • assumed
  • concluded
  • considered
  • debated
  • determined
  • discussed
  • explained
  • hypothesized
  • posited
  • reasoned
  • thought
On this page you'll find 185 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to postulated, such as: accepted, granted, presumed, conjectured, connoted, and given.

antonyms for postulated

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  • genuine
  • natural
  • real
  • unassumed
  • unexpected
  • certain
  • definite
  • factual
  • real
  • sure
  • calculated
  • confirmed
  • measured
  • proved
  • proven
  • reliable
  • truthful
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      How to use postulated in a sentence

      In all this speculation there is nothing mystical; no supernatural or supernormal interference is postulated.
      MYTH, RITUAL, AND RELIGION, VOL. 1ANDREW LANG
      The infinite consciousness, personality and determination which are postulated of gods are contradictions.
      COMMUNISM AND CHRISTIANISMWILLIAM MONTGOMERY BROWN
      In Timæus, p. 51 E, the like infallibility is postulated for Νοῦς (which there represents ἐπιστήμη) as contrasted with δόξα.
      PLATO AND THE OTHER COMPANIONS OF SOKRATES, 3RD ED. VOLUME III (OF 4)GEORGE GROTE
      A physician, for example, deliberately avoids such hard-and-fast alternatives as have been postulated in our instance.
      ESSAYS IN EXPERIMENTAL LOGICJOHN DEWEY
      What I mean is that they cannot even question their own sanity in the first premise of postulated argument.
      HIGHWAYS IN HIDINGGEORGE OLIVER SMITH
      What, therefore, can be postulated of the one will not apply with equal force to the other.
      THE MYSTERY OF SPACEROBERT T. BROWNE
      Perhaps the same may be said for 1000, though this could not be postulated with equal certainty.
      THE NUMBER CONCEPTLEVI LEONARD CONANT
      A short summary may here be given of the grounds on which the present writer has postulated a diversity of authorship.
      ENCYCLOPAEDIA BRITANNICA, 11TH EDITION, VOLUME 3, PART 1, SLICE 3VARIOUS
      Dunne postulated an infinite series of time dimensions, the entire extent of each being the bare present moment of the next.
      TIME AND TIME AGAINHENRY BEAM PIPER
      They trench on the freedom on which economic laws are postulated and on civic freedom also.
      ESSENTIALS OF ECONOMIC THEORYJOHN BATES CLARK
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      WORDS RELATED TO POSTULATED

      • accepted
      • conjectured
      • connoted
      • counted on
      • given
      • granted
      • hypothesized
      • hypothetical
      • inferred
      • postulated
      • presumed
      • presupposed
      • supposed
      • suppositional
      • surmised
      • tacit
      • taken as known
      • taken for granted
      • understood
      • analyzed
      • argued
      • assumed
      • concluded
      • considered
      • debated
      • determined
      • discussed
      • explained
      • hypothesized
      • posited
      • postulated
      • reasoned
      • thought
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