presuppose as a verb: - 1
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presuppose
verb
1 presuppose
Take for granted or as a given; suppose beforehand:
— I presuppose that you have done your work.
synonym: suppose.
Roget 481:
misjudge,
misestimate,
misthink†,
misconjecture†,
misconceive
etc.
(error)
495;
fly in the face of facts;
miscalculate,
misreckon,
miscompute.
overestimate
etc.
482;
underestimate
etc.
483.
prejudge,
forejudge;
presuppose,
presume,
prejudicate†;
dogmatize;
have a bias
etc.
n.;
have only one idea;
jurare in verba magistri [Lat.],
run away with the notion;
jump to a conclusion,
rush to a conclusion,
leap to a conclusion,
judge hastily,
shoot from the hip,
jump to conclusions;
look only at one side of the shield;
view with jaundiced eye,
view through distorting spectacles;
not see beyond one's nose;
dare pondus fumo [Lat.];
get the wrong sow by the ear
etc.
(blunder)
699.
give a bias,
give a twist;
bias,
warp,
twist;
prejudice,
prepossess.
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Roget 514:
suppose,
conjecture,
surmise,
suspect,
guess,
divine;
theorize;
presume,
presurmise†,
presuppose;
assume,
fancy,
wis†,
take it;
give a guess,
speculate,
believe,
dare say,
take it into one's head,
take for granted;
imagine
etc.
515.
put forth;
propound,
propose;
start,
put a case,
submit,
move,
make a motion;
hazard out,
throw out a suggestion,
put forward a suggestion,
put forward conjecture.
allude to,
suggest,
hint,
put it into one's head.
suggest itself
etc.
(thought)
451;
run in the head
etc.
(memory)
505;
marvel if,
wonder if,
wonder whether.
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Dutch: aannemen, toedenken, veronderstellen, vooronderstellen
2 presuppose
Require as a necessary antecedent or precondition:
— This step presupposes two prior ones.
synonym: suppose.
Dutch: aannemen, vooropstellen
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presupposed
Moby thesaurus: assumed, forejudged, hinted, implicated, implied, indicated, inferred, intimated, involved, judged beforehand, meant, preconceived, preconceptual, preconcluded, predecided, predetermined, predisposed, predispositional, prejudged, prejudging, prejudicial, presumed, presurmised, suggested, supposed ... show more.
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