English Dictionary

suppositious

形容詞

Spurious; substituted for the genuine, counterfeit; fake; supposititious. / Imaginary; fictitious, pretended to exist. / Hypothetical, based on supposition; suppositional.

日本語の意味

偽の、偽造の、実際のものの代用品である（模造品） / 架空の、実態のない、想像上や仮定に基づく / 疑似の、仮の（本物と見せかける）

The historian dismissed the suppositious account as a clever but ultimately unfounded attempt to rewrite the past.

歴史家はそのでっち上げの記述を、巧妙だが結局根拠のない過去を書き換えようとする試みに過ぎないとして退けた。

意味（1）

Spurious; substituted for the genuine, counterfeit; fake; supposititious.

[…] who knowes not how false, how suppositious, the writings and Epistles of the auncient Popes are iustly esteemed?

意味（2）

Imaginary; fictitious, pretended to exist.

At rehearsals the actor tossed an entirely imaginary cloak about his shoulders as though it were heavy brocade, courteously removed a hat made of air, and seriously set out on a suppositious table a non-existent dinner, after sedulously cooking it on a kitchen range that was a chair.

意味（3）

Hypothetical, based on supposition; suppositional.

Look, Dr. Lanning, let me present you with a suppositious case. Supposing we had a politician who was interested in defeating a reform candidate at any cost and while investigating his private life came across oddities such as I have just mentioned.

more suppositious （ comparative ）

most suppositious （ superlative ）