presume

Other forms of presume

past tense

presumed·

present participle

presuming·

third person

presumes·

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 presume

What does presume mean?

presume means "take to be the case or to be true; accept without verification or proof". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in presume?

presume has 2 syllables: pre-sume. The stress falls on "sume". In IPA it is /pɹɪˈzum/.

What is another word for presume?

Close synonyms include assume, take for granted, make bold, dare. 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 presume a common word?

presume is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with presume?

2 words rhyme with presume. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.