to presume

Examples

• All

• How dare you presume to question me on the law of Moses?

  Judas (2004)

• Don't presume to know what I'm prepared to do.

  Desperate Measures (1998)

• And I would not presume to class myself among them.

• OK, so I would not presume, but thank you so much.

• And I would not pretend or presume to know just how difficult.

  Adam Savage’s Tested

• " How dare you presume to be so important to me!

  Fiction book (1992)

• l don't presume to know them all.

  Tears of the Sun (2003)

• What kind of person would be so arrogant... ...to presume to know the intention of another human being?

  Lady in the Water (2006)

• By 1938, the Court had retreated, saying it would presume economic regulation to be constitutional.

  Academic text (1996)

• I wouldn't presume to tell you how to do your job, but I have some ideas.

Synonyms

T

to take the liberty

vsto presume

• Formal

62 6.8

To do something without asking for permission, as if you are allowed

is a general attitude of unwarranted confidence when acting without permission

A

to assume

vsto presume

36 5.7

Take control of a group or position without proper authority

is acting without permission but not involving forceful power seizure

Antonyms

A

to ask

∞ 1.0

To request that someone do something or meet a requirement

How Presumptuous

to overstep

43 5.9

to take liberties

• NSFW

77 7.7

to presume

27 6.1

to intrude

105 4.4

Surface Forms

Etymology