Synonyms of presuming

presuming 1 of 2

adjective

pri-ˈzü-miŋ 

1

as in arrogant

having a feeling of superiority that shows itself in an overbearing attitude

it's rather presuming of you to expect to be our first choice for the award

Synonyms & Similar Words

• arrogant
• superior
• cavalier
• assumptive
• important
• presumptuous
• uppity
• supercilious
• high-and-mighty
• dominant
• bumptious
• haughty
• uppish
• pretentious
• sniffy
• chesty
• pompous
• huffy
• high-handed
• masterful
• toplofty
• smug
• dominating
• lordly
• huffish
• imperious
• proud
• peremptory
• overweening
• high-hat
• domineering
• patronizing
• highfalutin
• lofty
• self-asserting
• magisterial
• self-assertive
• condescending
• authoritarian
• impudent
• stiff-necked
• pontificating
• pontifical
• impertinent
• snobbish
• bossy
• cocky
• snooty
• disdainful
• saucy
• hubristic
• snobby
• boastful
• conceited
• egocentric
• vainglorious
• narcissistic
• vain
• swaggering
• complacent
• bragging
• bombastic
• blustery
• uninhibited
• immodest
• egotistic
• egoistic
• self-complacent
• forward
• blusterous
• prideful
• self-centered
• self-satisfied
• self-affected
• extroverted
• braggart
• braggy
• unreserved
• self-applauding
• brash
• self-pleased
• self-conceited
• orgulous
• self-flattering
• stuck-up
• self-promoting
• self-loving

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• modest
• humble
• lowly
• timid
• shrinking
• unpretentious
• shy
• sheepish
• bashful
• diffident
• subdued
• passive
• deferential
• yielding
• compliant
• meek
• demure
• introverted
• acquiescent
• mousy
• unarrogant
• unassuming
• submissive
• unobtrusive
• unaggressive
• cringing
• unassertive
• quiet
• retiring
• overmodest
• cowering
• reserved
• self-critical
• self-doubting

2

as in familiar

showing a lack of proper social reserve or modesty

I thought it presuming of him to think that we would invite him along

Synonyms & Similar Words

• familiar
• arrogant
• presumptuous
• smug
• forward
• proud
• immodest
• selfish
• overfamiliar
• confident
• important
• free
• bold
• sure
• vain
• uppity
• cavalier
• conceited
• high-and-mighty
• complacent
• superior
• supercilious
• bumptious
• vainglorious
• snobbish
• impertinent
• pompous
• self-important
• cocky
• impudent
• hoity-toity
• disdainful
• haughty
• egomaniacal
• overbold
• overweening
• pretentious
• egotistic
• brazen
• insolent
• egoistic
• prideful
• cheeky
• highfalutin
• saucy
• self-complacent
• bragging
• lordly
• self-assertive
• high-hat
• brash
• pert
• self-satisfied
• sassy
• self-assured
• audacious
• brassy
• self-asserting
• domineering
• bold-faced
• boastful
• self-confident
• self-conceited
• fresh
• stuck-up
• braggart
• imperious
• high-handed
• self-interested
• brassbound
• self-absorbed
• self-centered
• self-involved
• self-seeking
• self-engrossed
• self-concerned
• self-infatuated
• self-obsessed

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• modest
• unassuming
• humble
• lowly
• meek
• timid
• unassertive
• shy
• unpretentious
• retiring
• demure
• bashful
• down-to-earth
• timorous
• mousy
• diffident
• self-doubting

3

as in busy

thrusting oneself where one is not welcome or invited

some presuming waiter thought that it was his business to tell the expectant mother that she shouldn't be having even one glass of wine

Synonyms & Similar Words

• busy
• intruding
• presumptuous
• officious
• interfering
• meddling
• pushing
• intrusive
• annoying
• meddlesome
• prying
• protrusive
• obtrusive
• nosy
• rude
• pushy
• snoopy
• curious
• invading
• impudent
• impertinent
• brazen
• trespassing
• insolent
• bumptious
• inquisitive
• harassing
• pestiferous
• bold
• overbearing
• superserviceable

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• unobtrusive
• withdrawn
• silent
• uninvolved
• reticent
• quiet
• retiring
• reserved
• restrained
• inhibited
• reclusive
• taciturn
• hands-off
• subdued

presuming

2 of 2

verb

present participle of presume

1

as in assuming

to form an opinion from little or no evidence

I presume you'll fly if you do go

Synonyms & Similar Words

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

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

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

2

as in saying

to take as true or as a fact without actual proof

we should presume that a person is innocent until proven guilty

Synonyms & Similar Words

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

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

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

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of presuming

Verb

This likely will be the only season that viewers will be able to watch most Heat games on WPLG, presuming the NBA goes ahead with plans to centralize teams’ local rights and sell them to a national streamer next season. — Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 1 Oct. 2026

Yet, even presuming that the government could beat back Native powers, intelligently dividing that unseen area into plots would require understanding its geography, soil, and waterways. — Daniel Immerwahr, New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2026

Waller is correct, though incorrect in presuming that market interventions properly telegraphed somehow result in good economic outcomes. — John Tamny, Forbes.com, 2 Aug. 2026

Congress can block it, but would need a veto-proof majority in both the House and Senate to do so—presuming Trump even wants the deal to go ahead. — David Frum, The Atlantic, 24 July 2026

Back home, monks had already begun performing last rite rituals for him, as his devout Buddhist wife and daughter mourned him, presuming him dead. — CBS News, 19 June 2026

There is an assumption of arrogance, of high expectations, of going into every major tournament presuming their team will win it. — Jack Pitt-Brooke, New York Times, 10 June 2026

Even more hilariously, 54 percent of Democrats went as far as presuming that even an 8-year-old boy could throw down his lunchbox and get the job done. — Rachel Marsden, Hartford Courant, 16 May 2026

Think about more positive interpretations before presuming someone is insulting you. — Tarot.com, Sun Sentinel, 12 Apr. 2026