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

  • adjective Of the nature of, including, or involving supposition.
  • noun A conjunction, such as if or providing, that introduces a supposition.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Supposed; including or implying supposition.
  • noun A conditional or continuative conjunction, as if, granted, provided.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Including or implying supposition, or hypothesis; supposed.
  • noun A word denoting or implying supposition, as the words if, granting, provided, etc.

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

  • noun A word denoting or implying supposition.

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Examples

  • And I'll have you know that trolls are one of Mrs. Clinton's most super supportively suppositive supporters!

    Hillary Wins New Mexico! 2009

  • Hasset is suppositive in tone throughout and offers some theoretically sound speculation on what may be occuring, and may occur in the future, with regards to democratic and authoritarian economies.

    Matthew Yglesias » Bring on the Coup 2007

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