Presume

Verb

 * 1)  To perform, do (something) without authority; to lay claim to without permission.
 * Don't make the decision yourself and presume too much.
 * 1)  With infinitive object: to be so presumptuous as (to do something) without proper authority or permission.
 * I wouldn't presume to tell him how to do his job.
 * 1)  To assume to be true (without proof); to take for granted, to suppose.
 * 2) * 2011, John Patterson, The Guardian, 5 Feb 2011:
 * If we presume that human cloning may one day become a mundane, everyday reality, then maybe it's time to start thinking more positively about our soon-to-arrive genetically engineered pseudo-siblings.
 * 1)  To be presumptuous; with on:, upon:, to take advantage (of), to take liberties (with).
 * 2) * 1994, Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom, Abacus 2010, p. 75:
 * Piliso then vented his anger on us, accusing us of lying to him. He said we had presumed on his hospitality and the good name of the regent.
 * 1)   To give some evidence of.
 * Paw prints in the snow presume a visit from next door's cat.

Derived terms

 * presumed perpetrator

Related terms

 * presumption
 * presumptive
 * presumptuous

Adverbs for Presume
unblushingly; boldly; conceitedly; petulantly; insolently; arrogantly; insistently; pettishly.

Thesaurus
account, account as, adjudge, adjudicate, affect, allegorize, allow, allude to, anticipate, aspire to, assume, attempt, bank on, be afraid, be judicious, be predisposed, believe, bring, bring to mind, call for, comprise, conceive, conclude, confide, conjecture, connote, consider, contain, contemplate, count, count on, dare, daresay, deduce, deem, deride, desire, divine, dread, dream, encroach upon, entail, envisage, esteem, estimate, exercise judgment, expect, express an opinion, face, fancy, feel, feel confident, forejudge, foresee, form an opinion, gather, get fresh, get smart, go off half-cocked, grant, guess, harbor the hope, have a hunch, have a nerve, have an idea, have an impression, have an inkling, have in mind, have the cheek, have the gall, have the idea, hazard, hint, hold, hold as, hold in contempt, hope, hope against hope, hope and pray, hope for, hope in, hope to God, hypothecate, hypothesize, imagine, implicate, imply, import, impose on, impose upon, infer, infringe, insinuate, intimate, intrude, involve, judge, judge beforehand, jump the gun, lead to, lean upon, let, let be, live in hopes, look upon as, maintain, make bold, make free, mean, mean to say, nurture the hope, obtrude, opine, pine, point indirectly to, posit, postulate, preconceive, preconclude, predecide, predetermine, prefigure, prejudge, premise, presuppose, presurmise, pretend, provisionally accept, reckon, regard, rely on, repute, require, rest assured, ridicule, say, set down as, speculate, subsume, suggest, suppose, surmise, suspect, take, take for, take for granted, take in, take it, take liberties, take liberties with, take the liberty, take to be, taunt, theorize, think, think likely, think of, trow, trust, understand, venture, venture to say, view as, ween

Alternative forms

 * præsume

Etymology
From presumer:,  presumer:, and their source,  praesumere:, from prae-: + sumere:.

Translations

 * Basque: uste izan
 * Esperanto: supozi
 * Finnish:
 * German:, ,
 * Hungarian:
 * Japanese: 推定する(すいていする, suitei-suru) (trans. 1.)


 * Korean: 거장하다 (假定~, geonjang-hada)
 * Persian: فرض کردن
 * Polish: przypuszczać
 * Romanian: presupune
 * Swedish:


 * : présumer; supposer que; faire preuve de; prendre des libertés (avec quelqu'un).


 * : aannemen; veronderstellen

Anagrams

 * supreme, Supreme

Anagrams

 * supreme