Synonyms of theorizing

theorizing

verb

present participle of theorize

as in speculating

to think of or suggest ideas about what is possibly true or real; to form or suggest a theory about something

Many scientists have theorized about the possibility of life on other planets.

Synonyms & Similar Words

• speculating
• hypothesizing
• thinking
• dreaming
• postulating
• saying
• believing
• presupposing
• assuming
• presuming
• supposing
• deducing
• premising
• accepting
• inferring
• crediting
• swallowing
• gathering
• judging
• figuring
• conjecturing
• guessing
• hypothecating
• concluding
• suspecting
• imagining
• conceiving
• surmising
• perceiving
• insisting
• suspicioning
• taking
• reckoning
• asserting
• fancying
• affirming
• claiming
• contending
• alleging
• declaring
• maintaining
• averring
• avowing
• professing
• preconceiving
• avouching

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• questioning
• doubting
• discounting
• challenging
• wondering (about)
• discrediting
• disputing
• controverting
• disbelieving
• distrusting
• disagreeing (with)
• denying
• rejecting
• disclaiming
• repudiating
• mistrusting
• disavowing
• refuting
• disproving
• rebutting
• disowning
• belying
• confuting

Examples Sentences

Recent Examples of theorizing

That means season 2 likely won’t solve all of the mysteries that fans have been theorizing about since Yellowjackets began. —Megan McCluskey, TIME, 2 Oct. 2024

The other guys were the basement-dwelling nephews and conspiracy-theorizing uncles. —Molly Fischer, The New Yorker, 1 Oct. 2024