presuppose

Verb

Meaning

To suppose beforehand; to imply as antecedent; to take for granted; to assume; as, creation presupposes a creator.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

suppose require judge believe mean figure think accept consider suggest involve supposed assume expect gather
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Antonyms

understand recognize enjoy realize acknowledge compute
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Hypernyms

assume imply presume take for granted

Hyponyms

premise postulate posit premiss

Derivatives

presupposed presupposing

Examples

This step presupposes two prior ones Source: Internet

I presuppose that you have done your work Source: Internet

As long as they carry a threat to the dominion of reason over the soul they constitute moral evil, but since they do not presuppose consent, one cannot call them sins. Source: Internet

ALEX GOLDMAN: Alright, so let's presuppose for a minute that the — Source: Internet

In that case, the tripod that Hesiod won might have been awarded for his rendition of Theogony, a poem that seems to presuppose the kind of aristocratic audience he would have met at Chalcis. Source: Internet

He alleges that the problems are traceable to a set of related assumptions about the nature of language, which themselves presuppose a particular conception of the essence of language. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

presupplementary presupply presupposal presupposedly presupposedness presupposer