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premisenounalso premiss something taken as being true or factual and used as a starting point for a course of action or reasoningyour conclusion is all wrong because you started out with a false premise assumption, given, hypothetical, if, postulate, presumption, presupposition, supposition hypothesis, proposition, theory, thesisaxiom, truism, veritybelief, canon, doctrine, dogma, gospel, lawprecept, principle, rule, standard, tenetbasis, foundation, groundconclusion, deduction, inferenceaffirmation, assertion, avouchment, declarationdictum, ipse dixit premises pl.the area around and belonging to a buildingdetectives painstakingly searched the premises for clues to the disappearance demesne, ground, park, yard acres, estate, land, lot, parcel, plot, property, real estate, realtycampusbackyard, churchyard, dooryardclose, enclosure(also inclosure), garden, garth, plaza to take as true or as a fact without actual prooflet us premise certain things, such as every person's need for love, before beginning our line of reasoning assume, hypothecate, hypothesize, postulate, presume, presuppose, say, suppose accept, believe, credit, swallowconclude, deduce, gather, infer, judge, takeconjecture, figure, guess, reckon(chiefly dialect), surmise, suspect, suspicion(chiefly dialect), thinkconceive, dream, fancy, imagine, perceive, preconceivespeculate, theorizeaffirm, allege, assert, aver, avouch, avow, claim, contend, declare, insist, maintain, profess take for granted challenge, controvert, disagree (with), disbelieve, discount, discredit, dispute, distrust, doubt, mistrust, question, wonder (about)deny, disavow, disclaim, disown, reject, repudiatebelie, confute, disprove, rebut, refute in the 14th century |