I will posit a guess: the person who ate my sandwich was once again Bob.
Source: tatoeba (8977907)
Posit
//ˈpɒzɪt//
Synonyms for "posit" (51 found)
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Closest matches (11)
Strong matches (15)
Related words (25)
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12 entriesSynonyms
3 entriescoordinate
1 entriesderived
5 entrieshas context
1 entriesrelated to
3 entriesTranslations
42 translations across 13 languages.
Bulgarian
3 entries- постулат noun (postulate)
- поставям verb (to put firmly)
- постулирам verb (to postulate)
Catalan
1 entries- postulat noun (postulate)
Czech
3 entries- postulovat verb (to postulate)
- předpokládat verb (to postulate)
- umístit verb (to put firmly)
Dutch
2 entries- postulaat noun (postulate)
- poneren verb (to postulate)
Finnish
4 entries- asettaa verb (to put firmly)
- ehdottaa verb (to suggest)
- esittää verb (to suggest)
- olettaa verb (to postulate)
French
4 entries- postulat noun (postulate)
- avancer verb (to suggest)
- postuler verb (to postulate)
- postuler verb (to suggest)
German
4 entries- Postulat noun (postulate)
- aufstellen verb (to suggest)
- postulieren verb (to postulate)
- postulieren verb (to suggest)
Hungarian
4 entries- elhelyez verb (to put firmly)
- feltesz verb (to postulate)
- posztulál verb (to postulate)
- rögzít verb (to put firmly)
Italian
2 entries- ipotizzare verb (to postulate)
- sostenere verb (to postulate)
Portuguese
3 entries- postulado noun (postulate)
- postular verb (to postulate)
- propor verb (to suggest)
Russian
4 entries- постула́т noun (postulate)
- постулировать verb (to postulate)
- предлага́ть verb (to suggest)
- ста́вить verb (to suggest)
Spanish
3 entries- deparar verb (to postulate)
- deparar verb (to suggest)
- plantear verb (to suggest)
Swedish
3 entries- anta verb (to suggest)
- förutsätta verb (to postulate)
- postulera verb (to postulate)
Sample sentences
6 total sentences available.
The well-preserved bones led its early 20th-century excavators to posit that the site marked a burial ground created by a predecessor to early modern humans.
Source: tatoeba (11884623)
With their new hardware implementation, which was synthesized in a field-programmable gate array (FPGA), the Complutense team was able to compare computations done using 32-bit floats and 32-bit posits side by side.
Source: wiktionary
some who posit both this cause and besides this the source of movement, which we have got from some as single and from other as twofold.
Source: wiktionary
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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.