Synonyms of premised

premised

verb

past tense of premise

as in assumed

to take as true or as a fact without actual proof

let us premise certain things, such as every person's need for love, before beginning our line of reasoning

Synonyms & Similar Words

• assumed
• said
• presumed
• believed
• concluded
• supposed
• presupposed
• thought
• postulated
• hypothesized
• guessed
• figured
• accepted
• insisted
• hypothecated
• dreamed
• inferred
• deduced
• credited
• imagined
• took for granted
• suspected
• claimed
• surmised
• contended
• conjectured
• asserted
• affirmed
• conceived
• speculated
• judged
• declared
• maintained
• alleged
• perceived
• theorized
• swallowed
• gathered
• averred
• professed
• fancied
• suspicioned
• reckoned
• took
• preconceived
• avowed
• avouched

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• challenged
• disputed
• questioned
• doubted
• discounted
• controverted
• disagreed (with)
• wondered (about)
• discredited
• denied
• distrusted
• rejected
• repudiated
• disclaimed
• disbelieved
• disavowed
• mistrusted
• disowned
• disproved
• belied
• refuted
• rebutted
• confuted

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of premised

First, it was premised on RCA winning on its tortious interference claim (which RCA could not as related above). — Jay Adkisson, Forbes.com, 23 July 2026

My classes are packed with many texts to read – often long, dense things – and my instruction has been premised on the idea that students would do the reading assignments. — Austin Sarat, The Conversation, 23 July 2026

As with Interview’s two seasons, the new offering is explicitly premised on the narrator’s unreliability. — Hannah Giorgis Yohannes, Vanity Fair, 13 July 2026

The choice yields a brighter, richer, more varied and nuanced story in which coming-of-age tropes mingle with Gileadean bleakness to reveal new facets of a state premised on male supremacy. — Judy Berman, Time, 8 July 2026

The Toy Story universe is premised on the idea that toys want more than anything to be played with—that a deep bond with a child is what gives a toy’s existence meaning. — Jacob Stern, The Atlantic, 17 June 2026

The lawsuit, which was filed in a California federal district court by Joshua Davis and other attorneys from Berger Montague and Freedman Normand Friedland, is premised on ideas that have been floating around the House settlement and its implementation for some time. — Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 10 June 2026

Instead, it was premised on a trendy new antitrust philosophy that reflexively views any corporate consolidation as inherently suspicious, regardless of any impacts on prices. — Alexander Ciccone, Oc Register, 8 June 2026

But democracy is premised on the idea that nobody does. — Jonathan Zimmerman, Chicago Tribune, 14 May 2026