Presuppose

Definition: Presuppose

Presuppose

Verb

1. Take for granted or as a given; suppose beforehand; "I presuppose that you have done your work".

2. Require as a necessary antecedent or precondition; in logic; "This step presupposes two prior ones".

Date "presuppose" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references)

Note: Presuppose \Pre`sup*pose"\, transitive verb. [imperative past participle Presupposed; present participle verb or noun Presupposing.]. (Websters 1913)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Misjudgment	Prejudge, forejudge; presuppose, presume, prejudicate; dogmatize; have a bias; Noun: have only one idea; jurare in verba magistri, 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; get the wrong sow by the ear; (blunder).
Supposition	Verb: 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.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Presuppose

English words defined with "presuppose": higher cognitive process ♦ Presupposed, Presupposing. (references)

Specialty definitions using "presuppose": dictionary flame. (references)

Author	Quotation
Sir Walter Raleigh	Who so taketh in hand to frame any state or government ought to presuppose that all men are evil, and at occasions will show themselves so to be.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Presuppose" is generally used as a lexical verb (base form) -- approximately 59.38% of the time. "Presuppose" is used about 96 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (base form)	59.38%	57	44,859
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	40.63%	39	55,036
Total	100.00%	96	N/A

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Language		Translations for "presuppose"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		presupozoj (predicate), parakuptoj, pandeh (surmise), supozoj (assume, calculate, conjecture, expect, guess, hypothesize, imagine, make, make advances to, presume, rate, reckon for, suppose), marr me mend (divine, guess, perceive, picture, presume, surmise). (various references)

Arabic		‏إفترض مسبقا, ‏إقتضى ضمنا (implicate, imply), ‏إستلزم (entail, necessitate, require). (various references)

Bulgarian		предполагам (assume, believe, conjecture, divine, expect, guess, imagine, implicate, imply, postulate, presume, reckon, suppose, suspect, take, take a notion, think, think for, ween), приемам за дадено (presume). (various references)

Chinese		预料 (Presupposed, Presupposing). (various references)

Czech		předpokládat (assume, imagine, involve, postulate, presume, suppose, surmise, trust, visualize). (various references)

Farsi		پیش پنداشتن , متضمن بودن (Embody, Entail, Include), ازپیش فرض کردن , دربرداشتن (Bear, Comport, Comprise, Contain, Embody, Encircle, Entail, Include). (various references)

Finnish		edellyttää (assume, postulate, presume, take ... for granted). (various references)

French		présupposer. (various references)

German		voraussetzen (assume, contemplate, demand, guess, postulate, presume, require, suppose, surmise, take for granted, to expect, to require, to suppose, understand). (various references)

Greek		προϋποθέτω (premise). (various references)

Hebrew		ל�"� יח מראש (premise). (various references)

Hungarian		vélelmez, feltételez (assume, conjecture, connote, hypothesize, presume, put, suppose, surmise, to conjecture, to presume, to put, to suppose, to surmise). (various references)

Indonesian		mensyaratkan (set something as condition). (various references)

Italian		presupporre (assume, premise, suppose). (various references)

Manx		sheiltyn rolaue. (various references)

Pig Latin		esupposepray

Portuguese		pressupor (foresee, foreshadow, predicate, premise), implicar (carry, connotate, connote, draw in, entangle, implicate, imply, import, infer, involve, predicate, purport, spell, suggest), fazer supor (implicate), conjeturar (conjecture, guess, presume, suppose, surmise). (various references)

Russian		заключать в себе (comprise, embody, encompass, hold, implicate, imply). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		pretpostaviti (assume, connote, hypothesize, suppose, surmise, suspect, trow). (various references)

Spanish		presuponer (imply). (various references)

Swedish		förutsätta (assume, postulate, presume, suppose). (various references)

Turkish		baştan farzetmek, önceden varsaymak. (various references)

Ukrainian		мати в собі, заздалегідь припускати. (various references)

Welsh		rhagdybied. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "presuppose": presupposed, presupposes. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Presuppose" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: orsippos. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "presuppose" (pronounced prē'supō"z)
5	-s u p ō" z	suppose.
4	-u p ō" z	depose, juxtapose, oppose, propose.
3	-p ō" z	compose, decompose, dispose, expose, impose, interpose, overexpose, pose, pows, predispose, reimpose, repose, superimpose, transpose.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "e-e-o-p-p-p-r-s-s-u"
	-1 letter: superpose.
	-2 letters: espouser, purposes, repousse, supposer.
	-3 letters: espouse, oppress, peppers, peruses, poppers, poseurs, purpose, reposes, suppers, suppose, upprops.
	-4 letters: eposes, eroses, opuses, pepper, perses, peruse, popper, posers, poseur, proses, purees, purses, repose, reuses, rouses, rupees, serous, speers, spores, spouse, sprees, sprues, supers, supper, uppers, upprop, uprose.
	-5 letters: erose, erses, euros, peeps, peers, pepos, perps, perse.
	Words containing the letters "e-e-o-p-p-p-r-s-s-u"
	+1 letter: presupposed, presupposes.
	+4 letters: superphosphate.
	+5 letters: superphosphates.
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