Definition of "supposed" []

• Presumed to be true or real without conclusive evidence. (adjective)
• Intended: medication that is supposed to relieve pain. (adjective)
• Required: He is supposed to go to the store. (adjective)
• Permitted: We are not supposed to smoke here. (adjective)
• Firmly believed; expected: You're supposed to be my friend. (adjective)

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• "I think that we were supposed to somehow see the perpetual loafer in Meathead was *supposed* to be the one making the money and Archie is stealing it from him by unfairly making reality what he wants to be."
• "˜The framing of moral rules, so long as the ultimate Good is supposed known, [Russell should have said ˜supposed agreed™] is a matter for science."
• "Quarterly Review_, the value of whose observations may appear from his statement, that "in 1828 the disease broke out in Orenburg, and was supposed [_supposed_!] to have been introduced by the caravans which arrive there from Upper Asia, or [_or_, nothing like a second string] by the Kingiss-Cossacks, who are adjoining this town, and were said [_were said_!] to have been about this time affected with the disease.""