Synonyms of assuming

assuming 1 of 2

adjective

as in wary

Related Words

• wary
• critical
• skeptical
• affected
• suspicious
• pretentious
• dishonest
• insincere
• false
• fake
• cynical
• phony
• artificial
• artful
• dissimulating
• mistrustful
• dissembling
• worldly
• sophisticated
• calculating
• civilized
• cosmopolitan
• cultured
• cultivated
• designing
• hypocritical
• guileful
• deceptive
• manipulative
• polished
• worldly-wise
• scheming
• tricky
• wily
• deceitful
• cunning
• shrewd
• subtle
• devious
• refined
• shifty
• crooked
• crafty
• sly
• slippery
• slick
• underhanded
• smooth
• flattering
• foxy
• double-dealing
• forced
• arch
• canny
• two-faced
• feigned
• sycophantic
• strained
• unctuous
• knavish
• sharp
• mealymouthed

Dissimilar Words

• real
• true
• naive
• unaffected
• simple
• honest
• genuine
• sincere
• natural
• innocent
• guileless
• unpretentious
• ingenuous
• artless
• inexperienced
• unpretending
• unsophisticated
• childlike
• malleable
• impressionable
• simpleminded
• persuadable
• unworldly
• wide-eyed
• spontaneous
• persuasible
• unforced
• gee-whiz
• unstudied
• dewy-eyed

assuming

2 of 2

verb

present participle of assume

1

as in accepting

to take to or upon oneself

we promised to assume responsibility for any damage to the flower beds caused by the volleyball game in the backyard

Synonyms & Similar Words

• accepting
• shouldering
• bearing
• undertaking
• embracing
• taking over
• adopting
• advocating
• endorsing
• supporting
• agreeing
• upholding
• consenting
• acquiescing
• backing
• taking up
• assenting
• espousing
• championing
• standing by
• acceding
• reassuming
• reaccepting

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• disclaiming
• disavowing
• repudiating
• renouncing
• refusing
• withdrawing
• rejecting
• disowning
• avoiding
• retracting
• declining
• taking back
• recanting
• abjuring
• turning down
• spurning
• refraining (from)
• bypassing
• abstaining (from)
• abandoning
• relinquishing
• forbearing
• surrendering
• forsaking
• unsaying
• detouring
• giving up
• backtracking
• backing down
• backing off
• abnegating

2

as in saying

to take as true or as a fact without actual proof

everyone assumed, wrongly, that someone else was bringing dessert

Synonyms & Similar Words

• saying
• presuming
• believing
• thinking
• supposing
• guessing
• concluding
• figuring
• presupposing
• hypothesizing
• postulating
• dreaming
• accepting
• insisting
• imagining
• premising
• taking for granted
• suspecting
• hypothecating
• inferring
• claiming
• speculating
• deducing
• crediting
• declaring
• judging
• maintaining
• swallowing
• surmising
• asserting
• perceiving
• fancying
• contending
• theorizing
• conjecturing
• alleging
• affirming
• conceiving
• suspicioning
• gathering
• taking
• reckoning
• professing
• avowing
• averring
• preconceiving
• avouching

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• doubting
• wondering (about)
• discounting
• questioning
• denying
• challenging
• disputing
• disbelieving
• discrediting
• disagreeing (with)
• controverting
• rejecting
• distrusting
• disclaiming
• repudiating
• disavowing
• mistrusting
• refuting
• disproving
• rebutting
• disowning
• belying
• confuting

3

as in guessing

to form an opinion from little or no evidence

as I just assumed it was too late to go out, I didn't think to ask

Synonyms & Similar Words

• guessing
• presuming
• supposing
• suspecting
• thinking
• imagining
• speculating
• surmising
• conjecturing
• believing
• suspicioning
• inferring
• daresaying
• concluding
• deducing
• expecting
• hypothesizing
• theorizing
• gathering
• judging
• conceiving
• hypothecating
• reckoning
• taking

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• establishing
• proving
• demonstrating
• documenting
• determining
• learning
• validating
• ascertaining
• finding out
• substantiating

4

as in pretending

to present a false appearance of

she assumed an air of nonchalance even though she was wildly ecstatic she was going on the date

Synonyms & Similar Words

• pretending
• simulating
• acting
• affecting
• feigning
• passing (for)
• professing
• bluffing
• posing
• faking
• forging
• concealing
• making believe
• dissembling
• playing
• putting on
• shamming
• counterfeiting
• imitating
• masquerading
• impersonating
• masking
• disguising
• camouflaging
• dissimulating
• letting on
• playacting
• malingering
• feinting

5

as in employing

to provide with a paying job

assumed as partner by the prestigious law firm

Synonyms & Similar Words

• employing
• hiring
• recruiting
• paying
• placing
• retaining
• engaging
• signing (up or on)
• enlisting
• feeing
• taking on
• laying on
• jobbing
• promoting
• partnering
• contracting
• upgrading
• subcontracting
• rehiring
• keeping (on)
• apprenticing
• reemploying
• reengaging
• scouting
• advancing
• headhunting

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• dismissing
• firing
• discharging
• sacking
• canning
• laying off
• axing
• locking out
• furloughing

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of assuming

Verb

But in most cases, Miss Manners hopes that people would begin by assuming the best. — Judith Martin, Sun Sentinel, 6 Nov. 2026

The Last Click Reveals What Drove A Sale Stop assuming the last click explains the purchase. — Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 6 Nov. 2026

Newman and backers like Common Cause and the League of Women Voters argued the current system was too easily abused for partisan ends, and could result in a candidate assuming office despite winning a small fraction of the vote. — Ben Paviour, Sacbee.com, 5 Nov. 2026

Nathan Johnson, a veteran litigator and Texas state senator, was elected this week as attorney general of the Lone Star State, assuming the role in January 2027. — Lars Brandle, Billboard, 5 Nov. 2026

Optimism isn’t about ignoring problems or assuming everything will work out. — Harvard Business Review, 30 Oct. 2026

In ordinary times, each official can continue assuming that all his colleagues will strive to maintain the status quo. — Jieun Baek, Foreign Affairs, 30 Oct. 2026

Israeli political commentator Amit Segal also cautioned against assuming the allegations would lead to the cancellation of election results. — Efrat Lachter, FOXNews.com, 29 Oct. 2026

John, whose descendants remember him as savvy and tenacious, evaded the racist federal ban on Chinese immigrants by assuming a new identity. — Gaby Del Valle, The Verge, 29 Oct. 2026