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

But that miscalculation was, itself, premised on the unexamined assumption that a K-12 public education should be essentially vocational and therefore—almost by definition—aligned with corporate interests. — Jessica Winter, New Yorker, 17 Sep. 2026

The result is a haunting portrait of social collapse whose power is premised on the words and faces of survivors. — Beatrice Loayza, Variety, 21 Aug. 2026

Garvey said the journal, which published quarterly from 1993 to 2005, was premised on the idea of abolishing whiteness as a social category that situates white people above other racial groups. — Harmeet Kaur, CNN Money, 30 July 2026

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