premiss

1. 1.

   a statement that is assumed to be true and from which a conclusion can be drawn

   “on the assumption that he has been injured we can infer that he will not play”

   Synonymspremiseassumption

   Broaderpostulate

   Narrowermajor premiseminor premisethesisconditionscenario

1. 1.

   take something as preexisting and given

   Synonymspremise

   Broaderpresuppose

Other forms of premiss

plural

premisses·

past tense

premissed·

present participle

premissing·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about premiss

What does premiss mean?

premiss means "a statement that is assumed to be true and from which a conclusion can be drawn". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in premiss?

premiss has 2 syllables: pre-miss. The stress falls on "pre".

What is another word for premiss?

Close synonyms include premise, assumption, premise. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is premiss a common word?

premiss is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.