presuppose

Other forms of presuppose

past tense

presupposed·

present participle

presupposing·

third person

presupposes·

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 presuppose

What does presuppose mean?

presuppose means "take for granted or as a given; suppose beforehand". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in presuppose?

presuppose has 3 syllables: pre-sup-pose. The stress falls on "pose". In IPA it is /ˌpɹisəˈpoʊz/.

What is another word for presuppose?

Close synonyms include suppose, suppose. 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 presuppose a common word?

presuppose 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.

What rhymes with presuppose?

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