premise

premise is a 7-letter English word with 11 senses as noun, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A proposition antecedently supposed or proved; something previously stated or assumed as the basis of further argument; a condition; a supposition. Face value is 11 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

7 letters · Scrabble 11 · Words With Friends 13 · 11 senses

Definitions

1. noun. A proposition antecedently supposed or proved; something previously stated or assumed as the basis of further argument; a condition; a supposition.
2. noun. Either of the first two propositions of a syllogism, from which the conclusion is drawn.
3. noun. Matters previously stated or set forth; esp., that part in the beginning of a deed, the office of which is to express the grantor and grantee, and the land or thing granted or conveyed, and all that precedes the habendum; the thing demised or granted.
4. noun. A piece of real estate; a building and its adjuncts; as, to lease premises; to trespass on another's premises.
5. noun. To send before the time, or beforehand; hence, to cause to be before something else; to employ previously.
6. noun. To set forth beforehand, or as introductory to the main subject; to offer previously, as something to explain or aid in understanding what follows; especially, to lay down premises or first propositions, on which rest the subsequent reasonings.
7. intransitive verb. To make a premise; to set forth something as a premise.
8. noun. a statement that is assumed to be true and from which a conclusion can be drawn

   "on the assumption that he has been injured we can infer that he will not to play"

   Synonyms: assumption, premiss

9. verb. take something as preexisting and given

   Synonyms: premiss

10. verb. furnish with a preface or introduction

    "She always precedes her lectures with a joke"

    "He prefaced his lecture with a critical remark about the institution"

    Synonyms: introduce, precede, preface

11. verb. set forth beforehand, often as an explanation

    "He premised these remarks so that his readers might understand"

Synonyms

assumption, premiss, introduce, precede, preface

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in premise:

empires, emprise, epimers, imprese, premies, spireme

Common word forms

premised, premises, premising

Words from these letters

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