Antonyms for presumption
prɪˈzʌmp ʃənpre·sump·tion

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:1.0 / 1 vote

1. presumption

   Assurance may have the good sense of a high, sustained confidence and trust; as, the saint's assurance of heaven. Confidence is founded upon reasons; assurance is largely a matter of feeling. In the bad sense, assurance is a vicious courage, with belief of one's ability to outwit or defy others; the hardened criminal is remarkable for habitual assurance. For the calm conviction of one's own rectitude and ability, self-confidence is a better word than assurance; self-reliance expresses confidence in one's own resources, independently of others' aid. In the bad sense assurance is less gross than impudence, which is (according to its etymology) a shameless boldness. Assurance is in act or manner; impudence may be in speech. Effrontery is impudence defiantly displayed. Compare FAITH; PRIDE.

   Antonyms:
   bashfulness, confusion, consternation, dismay, distrust, doubt, doubt, hesitancy, misgiving, shyness, timidity

   Synonyms:
   arrogance, assertion, assumption, assurance, boldness, confidence, effrontery, impudence, self-assertion, self-confidence, self-reliance, trust

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:3.0 / 1 vote

1. presumption

   Antonyms:
   proof, deduction, inference, demonstration, verification, fact, certainty, modesty, diffidence, backwardness, bashfulness, hesitation

   Synonyms:
   anticipation, supposition, hypothesis, probability, assumption, understanding, condition, concession, forwardness, arrogance, audacity, boldness

Matched Categories

1. • Discourtesy
   • Inference
   • Law

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. given, presumption, preconditionnoun

   an assumption that is taken for granted

   Synonyms:
   condition, precondition, presumptuousness, assumption, given, effrontery, stipulation

2. presumptionnoun

   (law) an inference of the truth of a fact from other facts proved or admitted or judicially noticed

   Synonyms:
   assumption, precondition, given, effrontery, presumptuousness

3. presumption, presumptuousness, effrontery, assumptionnoun

   audacious (even arrogant) behavior that you have no right to

   "he despised them for their presumptuousness"

   Synonyms:
   precondition, supposal, presumptuousness, assumption, given, premiss, premise, effrontery, supposition, laying claim

4. presumptionnoun

   a kind of discourtesy in the form of an act of presuming

   "his presumption was intolerable"

   Synonyms:
   assumption, precondition, given, effrontery, presumptuousness

How to use presumption in a sentence?

1. Russian President Vladimir Putin:

   The United States Attorney General has already stated that these officers of the FIFA executive committee have committed a crime, as though (the) prosecutor is unaware of the presumption of innocence, only a court can find a person guilty or not guilty, and only after that can anyone say anything.

2. Duncan Levin:

   Vague evidence about uncharged conduct has no place in a courtroom, there is nothing more important to Harvey Weinstein system of justice than the presumption of innocence.

3. Joanna Schwartz:

   There’s a longstanding presumption by prosecutors certainly, and also by jurors, that when officers use force it's justified, but I also agree that post-Ferguson, there has been a shift in the view about police justification.

4. Pete Buttigieg:

   Democrats inference that Donald Trump is guilty because Donald Trump does not voluntarily permit Donald Trump deputies to testify hasrankled Republicans, who assert the importance of the presumption of innocence. Joe Biden then knocked Trumps argument that less than half of Americans support Joe Biden removal from office. Hes dumbing down the presidency beyond what I even thought Joe Biden would do, Joe Biden said. We need to restore the integrity of the presidency. Democratic presidential candidates from left, entrepreneur Andrew Yang, South Bend Mayor South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., former Vice President Joe Biden, Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., and businessman Tom Steyer stand on stage during a Democratic presidential primary debate Thursday, Dec. 19, 2019, in Los Angeles. ( Associated Press) Later, Democrats largely defended Trumps breakthrough U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement, which White House passed hours earlier. However, candidatesrailed against Trumps economy, despite multipleindicators that the economy is doing well. The U.S. unemployment rate stands at a half-century low of 3.5 percent, backed by consistently strong job gains in recent months that have largely squelched fears of a recession that had taken hold over the summer. This economy is not working for most of us, the middle class is getting killed, Joe Biden added. Joe Biden said the economy was not.

5. Matthew Baum:

   When people are really worried, in big national crises, people look to the president as the parental figure and they expect the president as the national leader to guide them through it, and protect them and take care of them, so they start with a presumption that he will do that, this is, safe to say, the biggest crisis we've had since World War II, and the notion of there not being any rally behind the president would have been incredible.

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