Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to posit
Participle: posited
Gerund: positing
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | posit |
| you | posit |
| he;she;it | posits |
| we | posit |
| you | posit |
| they | posit |
Perfect
| I | have posited |
| you | have posited |
| he;she;it | has posited |
| we | have posited |
| you | have posited |
| they | have posited |
Past
| I | posited |
| you | posited |
| he;she;it | posited |
| we | posited |
| you | posited |
| they | posited |
Pluperfect
| I | had posited |
| you | had posited |
| he;she;it | had posited |
| we | had posited |
| you | had posited |
| they | had posited |
Future
| I | will posit |
| you | will posit |
| he;she;it | will posit |
| we | will posit |
| you | will posit |
| they | will posit |
Future Perfect
| I | will have posited |
| you | will have posited |
| he;she;it | will have posited |
| we | will have posited |
| you | will have posited |
| they | will have posited |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | posit |
| you | posit |
| he;she;it | posit |
| we | posit |
| you | posit |
| they | posit |
Perfect
| I | have posited |
| you | have posited |
| he;she;it | have posited |
| we | have posited |
| you | have posited |
| they | have posited |
Imperfect
| I | posited |
| you | posited |
| he;she;it | posited |
| we | posited |
| you | posited |
| they | posited |
Pluperfect
| I | had posited |
| you | had posited |
| he;she;it | had posited |
| we | had posited |
| you | had posited |
| they | had posited |
Conditional
Present
| I | would posit |
| you | would posit |
| he;she;it | would posit |
| we | would posit |
| you | would posit |
| they | would posit |
Perfect
| I | would have posited |
| you | would have posited |
| he;she;it | would have posited |
| we | would have posited |
| you | would have posited |
| they | would have posited |
Imperative
| you | posit |
| we | Let's posit |
| you | posit |
Verbs conjugated like 'posit'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'posit'
post,
besit,
bost,
coit,
cost,
deposit,
dogsit,
doit,
exposit,
hoit,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
- to deem something true without verification or proof
- arread, assume, conject, conjecture, daresay, dope, go out on a limb, guess, guesstimate, hypothesize, imagine, infer, overhope, postulate, presume, reckon, speculate, suppose, suspect, take a stab at, take something as read, ween
- postulate
- assert, propound, predicate, declare, pronounce, announce, say, state
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin positus, perfect participle of pōnō (“put, place”). Noun sense 3 (type of number format) was coined by American computer scientist and businessman John Gustafson in 2017.
Sample Sentences
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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. [1908, ARISTOTLE, translated by W. D. Ross, Metaphysics, Book 1, Part 5:]
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Ray's natural theology posited that God was responsible for the near-perfect match between an animal and its environment and encouraged readers to seek evidence for God through the study of nature. [2023, Tim Birkhead, Birds and Us, Penguin Books, page 193:]
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Among many Indians, however, an exonormative view, which even today posits British English as the target model, appears to be firmly in place. [2014, James Lambert, “Diachronic stability in Indian English lexis”, in World Englishes, page 113:]