'Presuppose' definitions:
Definition of 'presuppose'
(from WordNet)
Definition of 'Presuppose'
From: GCIDE
- Presuppose \Pre`sup*pose"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Presupposed; p. pr. & vb. n. Presupposing.] [Pref. pre- + suppose: cf. F. pr['e]supposer.] To suppose beforehand; to imply as antecedent; to take for granted; to assume; as, creation presupposes a creator. [1913 Webster]
- Each [kind of knowledge] presupposes many necessary things learned in other sciences, and known beforehand. --Hooker. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'presuppose'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- affect,
- allegorize,
- allude to,
- assume,
- be afraid,
- be predisposed,
- believe,
- bring,
- bring to mind,
- call for,
- comprise,
- conceive,
- conclude,
- conjecture,
- connote,
- consider,
- contain,
- daresay,
- deduce,
- deem,
- divine,
- dream,
- entail,
- expect,
- fancy,
- feel,
- forejudge,
- gather,
- go off half-cocked,
- grant,
- guess,
- hint,
- imagine,
- implicate,
- imply,
- import,
- infer,
- insinuate,
- intimate,
- involve,
- judge,
- judge beforehand,
- jump the gun,
- lead to,
- let,
- let be,
- mean,
- mean to say,
- opine,
- point indirectly to,
- posit,
- postulate,
- preconceive,
- preconclude,
- predecide,
- predetermine,
- prefigure,
- prejudge,
- premise,
- presume,
- presurmise,
- provisionally accept,
- reckon,
- repute,
- require,
- say,
- subsume,
- suggest,
- suppose,
- surmise,
- suspect,
- take,
- take for,
- take for granted,
- take in,
- take it,
- take to be,
- think,
- understand