suppose
verb (used with object)
to assume (something) for the sake of argument, as part of a proposition or theory, a problem set to be solved as an exercise, etc..
unsupposable
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a word derived from
suppose.
Example Sentences
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The formation of salt at the bottom of the sea, without the assistance of subterranean fire, is not a thing unsupposable, as at first sight it might appear.
From Theory of the Earth, Volume 1 (of 4) by James Hutton
He should miss the great man completely unless the great man should come to see him, and the great man could only come to see him for a purpose unsupposable.
From The Wings of the Dove, Volume II by Henry James
The Carrizoso plateau had been sacred ground, and it was unsupposable that it could ever be desecrated by the trampling hoofs and scissor noses of these woolly abominations.
From Heart's Desire by Emerson Hough
Now, shall we suppose those strata of sand-stone to have been formed in their place, and to have reached no farther eastward into the sea?—It is unsupposable.
From Theory of the Earth, Volume 2 (of 4) by James Hutton
That he could take advantage of the technical "damage" done was quite unsupposable.
From Tom Slade at Temple Camp by Percy Keese Fitzhugh
