SUPPOSEDLY meaning: Believed or assumed to be

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supposedly: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
supposedly: Merriam-Webster
supposedly: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
supposedly: Collins English Dictionary
supposedly: Vocabulary.com
Supposedly, supposedly: Wordnik
supposedly: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
supposedly: Wiktionary
supposedly: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
supposedly: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
supposedly: Dictionary.com
supposedly: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
supposedly: FreeDictionary.org
supposedly: Mnemonic Dictionary
supposedly: TheFreeDictionary.com
supposedly: Rhymezone

Business (1 matching dictionary)

supposedly: Legal dictionary

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supposedly: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (

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▸ adverb: As a matter of supposition; in the beliefs or according to the claims of some people.
▸ adverb: (Philippines, informal) Used in place of "supposed to be," often in informal or colloquial speech, as a mispronunciation.

Opposite:

actually, really, truly, factually, definitely

Types:

allegedly, ostensibly, purportedly, putatively, more...

Phrases:

A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again, supposedly but not actually, emperor who supposedly fiddled, more...

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