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
• important
• assumptive
• dominant
• presumptuous
• uppity
• supercilious
• high-and-mighty
• hifalutin
• bumptious
• smug
• haughty
• dominating
• uppish
• pretentious
• masterful
• sniffy
• toploftical
• domineering
• chesty
• pompous
• huffy
• high-handed
• imperious
• toplofty
• lordly
• huffish
• patronizing
• proud
• peremptory
• overweening
• high-hat
• authoritarian
• highfalutin
• lofty
• self-asserting
• magisterial
• condescending
• self-assertive
• impudent
• stiff-necked
• pontificating
• pontifical
• impertinent
• snobbish
• bossy
• egotistical
• disdainful
• cocky
• snooty
• boastful
• saucy
• vain
• hubristic
• snobby
• conceited
• egocentric
• vainglorious
• narcissistic
• swaggering
• complacent
• bragging
• egoistical
• bombastic
• blustery
• uninhibited
• blusterous
• immodest
• egotistic
• egoistic
• forward
• self-complacent
• prideful
• extraverted
• self-centered
• self-satisfied
• extroverted
• self-affected
• 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
• reserved
• cowering
• mousey
• 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
• smug
• presumptuous
• proud
• confident
• forward
• important
• immodest
• selfish
• overfamiliar
• sure
• bold
• free
• vain
• cavalier
• egotistical
• uppity
• superior
• conceited
• high-and-mighty
• complacent
• supercilious
• bumptious
• vainglorious
• snobbish
• hifalutin
• impertinent
• pompous
• self-important
• egoistical
• cocky
• impudent
• hoity-toity
• disdainful
• haughty
• egomaniacal
• overbold
• overweening
• pretentious
• egotistic
• brazen
• insolent
• egoistic
• prideful
• cheeky
• highfalutin
• saucy
• self-complacent
• domineering
• bragging
• lordly
• self-assertive
• high-hat
• brash
• pert
• self-satisfied
• sassy
• self-assured
• audacious
• brassy
• self-asserting
• bold-faced
• boastful
• self-confident
• self-conceited
• fresh
• stuck-up
• imperious
• braggart
• 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
• unpretentious
• shy
• retiring
• demure
• bashful
• down-to-earth
• timorous
• mousy
• diffident
• mousey
• 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
• nosey
• prying
• protrusive
• obtrusive
• nosy
• pushy
• rude
• snoopy
• curious
• invading
• impudent
• impertinent
• trespassing
• brazen
• 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