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

So, associations should avoid assuming that a seemingly minor irrigation problem presents no legal concern. — Christyne D. Santisteban, Miami Herald, 8 Oct. 2026

The May 2027 board elections would be conducted under the new system if adopted, assuming the voting districts are drawn and approved at least 120 days before the election, according to state law. — Matthew Adams, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 8 Oct. 2026

Before assuming someone is being inconsiderate, ask what’s keeping them there. — Angela Haupt, Time, 7 Oct. 2026

The cost of the journey comes to $38 per barrel of oil assuming the tanker holds 2 million barrels. — Brian Sullivan,spencer Kimball, CNBC, 7 Oct. 2026

Skydance will have a mountain of debt, projected to be north of $80 billion, after assuming the debt burdens of previous M&A incurred by Paramount and WBD and raising new debt financing. — Todd Spangler, Variety, 2 Oct. 2026

In my hypothetical example, his 2026 fortune falls from $908 billion reported by Forbes to about $317 billion in my counterfactual 10 percent wealth tax example (again, assuming his wealth over the past 10 years grew smoothly). — Jeff Hoopes, Washington Post, 1 Oct. 2026

It should be stopped, assuming doing so doesn't trigger undue consequences. — Matt Calkins Outkick, FOXNews.com, 30 Sep. 2026

Our mistake was in assuming that a strong economic case equates to a strong financial case. — Stephanie Walton, Fortune, 29 Sep. 2026