assuming
adjective
as·sum·ing ə-ˈsü-miŋ 
: having or showing the attitude of someone who assumes something that should not be assumed : pretentious, presumptuous
… I caught him boasting … about how popular he had become. Oh well, he could have been joking only, but to me I find it very assuming of him.
Ryan Mark
Ryan Mark"When there are conversations centering around sexual assault, they tend to be very assuming of heterosexual dynamics." Justice Gaines
Justice GainesWhen speaking about newly signed left guard Andrew Norwell, [Tom] Coughlin was quick to speak in a very assuming way of how this offense is going to play. Ryan Day
Ryan Day
Word History
First Known Use
1667, in the meaning defined above
assuming 1 of 2
adjective
as in wary
Synonyms & Similar Words
Relevance
- wary
- affected
- skeptical
- critical
- suspicious
- pretentious
- dissembling
- dishonest
- false
- insincere
- fake
- dissimulating
- calculating
- cynical
- phony
- artificial
- artful
- mistrustful
- worldly
- sophisticated
- civilized
- cultivated
- designing
- cosmopolitan
- phoney
- hypocritical
- cultured
- scheming
- deceptive
- tricky
- manipulative
- wily
- polished
- guileful
- canny
- worldly-wise
- cunning
- shrewd
- deceitful
- forced
- subtle
- shifty
- devious
- refined
- arch
- sly
- crooked
- crafty
- flattering
- slippery
- sycophantic
- underhanded
- slick
- smooth
- foxy
- double-dealing
- feigned
- knavish
- two-faced
- strained
- mealymouthed
- unctuous
- sharp
Antonyms & Near Antonyms
- true
- real
- naive
- unaffected
- naïve
- simple
- honest
- genuine
- sincere
- natural
- innocent
- guileless
- unpretentious
- inexperienced
- artless
- ingenuous
- unpretending
- unsophisticated
- simpleminded
- malleable
- childlike
- persuadable
- impressionable
- unworldly
- spontaneous
- persuasible
- unforced
- unstudied
- dewy-eyed
- wide-eyed
- gee-whiz
assuming
2 of 2verb
1
as in accepting
to take to or upon oneself we promised to assume responsibility for any damage to the flower beds caused by the volleyball game in the backyard Synonyms & Similar Words
- accepting
- shouldering
- bearing
- undertaking
- embracing
- advocating
- adopting
- taking over
- endorsing
- agreeing
- supporting
- acquiescing
- upholding
- consenting
- assenting
- backing
- reassuming
- espousing
- acceding
- indorsing
- championing
- taking up
- standing by
- reaccepting
Antonyms & Near Antonyms
- disclaiming
- disavowing
- renouncing
- repudiating
- rejecting
- avoiding
- refusing
- withdrawing
- disowning
- retracting
- declining
- recanting
- abjuring
- taking back
- turning down
- bypassing
- spurning
- abandoning
- refraining (from)
- relinquishing
- abstaining (from)
- unsaying
- surrendering
- forsaking
- forbearing
- detouring
- spurning
- backtracking
- backing down
- backing off
- abnegating
- giving up
2
as in saying
to take as true or as a fact without actual proof everyone assumed, wrongly, that someone else was bringing dessert Synonyms & Similar Words
- saying
- presuming
- believing
- thinking
- supposing
- guessing
- presupposing
- concluding
- figuring
- hypothesizing
- postulating
- dreaming
- insisting
- accepting
- imagining
- premising
- suspecting
- inferring
- claiming
- hypothecating
- speculating
- deducing
- declaring
- crediting
- taking for granted
- judging
- surmising
- maintaining
- conjecturing
- asserting
- swallowing
- perceiving
- theorizing
- fancying
- affirming
- contending
- suspicioning
- alleging
- conceiving
- reckoning
- gathering
- taking
- avowing
- professing
- preconceiving
- averring
- avouching
Antonyms & Near Antonyms
- doubting
- discounting
- questioning
- denying
- wondering (about)
- disputing
- disbelieving
- discrediting
- challenging
- rejecting
- disclaiming
- controverting
- disagreeing (with)
- distrusting
- disavowing
- repudiating
- refuting
- disproving
- mistrusting
- rebutting
- disowning
- belying
- confuting
3
as in guessing
to form an opinion from little or no evidence as I just assumed it was too late to go out, I didn't think to ask Synonyms & Similar Words
- guessing
- presuming
- supposing
- suspecting
- thinking
- imagining
- speculating
- surmising
- believing
- conjecturing
- suspicioning
- inferring
- daresaying
- concluding
- expecting
- deducing
- hypothesizing
- theorizing
- gathering
- judging
- hypothecating
- reckoning
- conceiving
- taking
Antonyms & Near Antonyms
- proving
- demonstrating
- establishing
- determining
- validating
- documenting
- ascertaining
- learning
- substantiating
- finding out
4
as in pretending
to present a false appearance of she assumed an air of nonchalance even though she was wildly ecstatic she was going on the date Synonyms & Similar Words
- pretending
- simulating
- acting
- affecting
- feigning
- making believe
- professing
- shamming
- bluffing
- posing
- faking
- concealing
- dissembling
- forging
- playing
- imitating
- counterfeiting
- putting on
- masquerading
- impersonating
- dissimulating
- passing (for)
- playacting
- disguising
- masking
- letting on
- camouflaging
- feinting
- malingering
5
as in employing
to provide with a paying job assumed as partner by the prestigious law firm Synonyms & Similar Words
- employing
- hiring
- recruiting
- paying
- retaining
- engaging
- placing
- feeing
- enlisting
- taking on
- laying on
- promoting
- contracting
- partnering
- apprenticing
- rehiring
- jobbing
- upgrading
- signing (up or on)
- re-employing
- reengaging
- reemploying
- subcontracting
- re-engaging
- advancing
- scouting
- headhunting
- keeping (on)
Antonyms & Near Antonyms
- dismissing
- firing
- discharging
- sacking
- canning
- laying off
- axing
- locking out
- furloughing
- heavy nitrogen
- heavy oil
- heavy oil of wine
- heavy on
- heavy on one's hands
- heavy oxygen
- heavy pine
- heavy racket
- heavy sleeper
- heavy snow
- heavy snowfall
- heavy solution
- heavy spar
- heavy water
- heavy weapons company
- heavy weather
- heavy with
- heavy-armed
- heavy-duty
- heavy-footed
- heavy-handed
- heavy-handedly
- heavy-handedness
- heavy-headed
- heavy-laden