Dictionary Entry
postulate
postulate is a 9-letter English word with 10 senses as noun, adjective, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Something demanded or asserted; especially, a position or supposition assumed without proof, or one which is considered as self-evident; a truth to which assent may be demanded or challenged, without argument or evidence. Face value is 11 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
9 letters · Scrabble 11 · Words With Friends 14 · 10 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
Something demanded or asserted; especially, a position or supposition assumed without proof, or one which is considered as self-evident; a truth to which assent may be demanded or challenged, without argument or evidence.
- 2noun
The enunciation of a self-evident problem, in distinction from an axiom, which is the enunciation of a self-evident theorem.
- 3adjective
Postulated.
- 4transitive verb
To beg, or assume without proof; as, to postulate conclusions.
- 5transitive verb
To take without express consent; to assume.
- 6transitive verb
To invite earnestly; to solicit.
- 7noun
(logic) a proposition that is accepted as true in order to provide a basis for logical reasoning
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- 8verb
take as a given; assume as a postulate or axiom
"He posited three basic laws of nature"
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- 9verb
maintain or assert
"He contended that Communism had no future"
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- 10verb
require as useful, just, or proper
"It takes nerve to do what she did"
"success usually requires hard work"
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