PRESUMED Synonyms: 141 Similar and Opposite Words

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adjective

as in apparent

appearing to be true on the basis of evidence that may or may not be confirmed the presumed culprit

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verb

past tense of presume

as in assumed

to form an opinion from little or no evidence I presume you'll fly if you do go

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to take as true or as a fact without actual proof we should presume that a person is innocent until proven guilty

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Recent Examples of presumed

Adjective

The presumed reasoning behind why the film was ignored is multilayered. — Marcus Jones, IndieWire, 8 Aug. 2025

Verb

The last polls before election day have given Eisenkot’s Yashar presumed coalition a lead of about two to six seats over Netanyahu’s ruling coalition, according to three of Israel’s main broadcasters. — Yarden Segev, NBC news, 27 Oct. 2026 The motion noted that Brockway gave an officer a residence key that was later given to another officer who presumed it to imply consent for entry. — Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 24 Oct. 2026 Iris is presumed to have been painted in the open air circa 1924–25, near the end of the artist’s life. — News Desk, Artforum, 23 Oct. 2026 In 1971, Ken Russell’s name was synonymous with controversy, and for years the missing scene was presumed to be an act of gratuitous provocation. — Damon Wise, Deadline, 21 Oct. 2026 Everyone charged is presumed innocent while their cases move through the courts. — Raven Lightsey, Sun Sentinel, 18 Oct. 2026 Defendants facing criminal charges are presumed innocent unless proven guilty. — Brittany Miller, FOXNews.com, 14 Oct. 2026 Right now, there are zero Black performers in Gold Derby’s presumed top five in each acting category. — Nate Jones, Vulture, 9 Oct. 2026 This particular set of remains—46 crania stored at Cambridge University—came from the Umm el-Qaab cemetery, which contains subsidiary burials presumed to be retainers of deceased First Dynasty rulers. — Jennifer Ouellette, ArsTechnica, 5 Oct. 2026

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Adjective

One account describes an unusual encounter that raises questions about the object’s flight characteristics and apparent lack of detectable heat.

— Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 23 Oct. 2026
Commenters seem amused by the apparent gaffe and have chosen to convey their feelings through a plethora of puns, jokes and memes.

— Chuck Schilken, Los Angeles Times, 23 Oct. 2026

Definition of apparent

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Lukic, whose lab continues to scale up its medium-voltage unit, assumed the killer application for SSTs would be EVs.

— Alex Pasternack, Scientific American, 20 Oct. 2026
If Cammarata is correct, then mechanistic interpretation may be more effective than many had assumed.

— Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 20 Oct. 2026

Definition of assumed

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Brennan said his letter was based on direction offered by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops in November.

— Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 25 Oct. 2026
Slide 1 of 15 The entries included license plate numbers, descriptions of vehicles and descriptions of law enforcement personnel Willie Herndon believed were following him, the complaint said.

— Dennis Romero, NBC news, 25 Oct. 2026

Definition of said

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That Bell was the inspiration for Sherlock Holmes was still known to only a handful of people, including Robert Louis Stevenson, who had by then guessed the truth.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 20 Oct. 2026
To keep potentially sensitive information from being accessible to unintended people, the URLs typically contain a long sequence of text that can’t be easily guessed.

— Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 20 Oct. 2026

Definition of guessed

Verb

Fixes for what are believed to be uncommonly severe vulnerabilities are scheduled to drop in a little more than 12 hours for PHP, a programming language that powers websites and Web applications everywhere.

— Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 21 Oct. 2026
Mustapha initially believed the film would be driven by its ideas about masculinity, only to discover in the edit that their friendship had become its emotional throughline.

— Essie Assibu, Variety, 20 Oct. 2026

Definition of believed

Adjective

There was palpable excitement, especially after Barringer noted that national Democrats had put the seat on a list of ones to watch for a possible upset.

— ABC News, ABC News, 24 Oct. 2026
The embassy said in a statement Monday that partial curfews had been introduced in several French cities, with additional restrictions possible.

— Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 24 Oct. 2026

Definition of possible

Verb

But physicists have long suspected that at a subatomic level, there is a something that inherently controls how fast these changes can occur.

— Ameya Paleja, Interesting Engineering, 20 Oct. 2026
By the 2000s scientists had detected thousands of GRBs, and researchers suspected they were being created by two classes of objects.

— Robin George Andrews, Scientific American, 20 Oct. 2026

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