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Presuppose

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

v. To believe or suppose in advance.

v. To require or involve necessarily as an antecedent condition. See Synonyms at presume.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

v. To assume some truth without proof, usually for the purpose of reaching a conclusion based on that truth.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

v. To suppose beforehand; to imply as antecedent; to take for granted; to assume.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

To suppose beforehand; take for granted in advance of actual knowledge or experience.

To assume beforehand; require or imply as an antecedent condition; necessitate the prior assumption of.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

v. require as a necessary antecedent or precondition

v. take for granted or as a given; suppose beforehand

Word Usage

"That said, such calls presuppose that Obama will be included in the "need to know" loop of any hardcore evidence of aliens contact ... and I very much doubt he will."

Verb Form

presupposed presupposes presupposing

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

imply

Form

presupposed presupposing

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

assume

Rhyme

Words with the same terminal sound

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