Usually means: Assuming something is true beforehand.
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We found 19 dictionaries that define the word presuming:

General (16 matching dictionaries)
  1. presuming: Merriam-Webster
  2. presuming: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. presuming: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. presuming: Collins English Dictionary
  5. presuming: Vocabulary.com
  6. Presuming, presuming: Wordnik
  7. presuming: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. presuming: Wiktionary
  9. presuming: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. presuming: Dictionary.com
  11. presuming: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  12. Presuming: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. Presuming: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. presuming: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  15. presuming: FreeDictionary.org
  16. presuming: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. presuming: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. presuming: Legal dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. presuming: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (presuming)

▸ adjective:  confidently or arrogantly overstepping reasonable bounds.

Similar:
assume, take for granted, presumptuous, presumptious, overpresumptuous, uppity, overweening, overbold, arrogative, overconfident, more...

Opposite:
doubting, disbelieving, questioning, uncertain

Phrases:
presuming on, presuming upon, more...

Adjectives:
more, little, high, last, intentional



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Similar:
assume, take for granted, presumptuous, presumptious, overpresumptuous, uppity, overweening, overbold, arrogative, overconfident, more...

Opposite:
doubting, disbelieving, questioning, uncertain

Phrases:
presuming on, presuming upon, more...

Adjectives:
more, little, high, last, intentional



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