Assumed

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Assumed \As*sumed"\, a.
     1. Supposed.
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     2. Pretended; hypocritical; make-believe; as, an assumed
        character.


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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Assume \As*sume"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Assumed}; p. pr. & vb.
     n. {Assuming}.] [L. assumere; ad + sumere to take; sub +
     emere to take, buy: cf. F. assumer. See {Redeem}.]
     1. To take to or upon one's self; to take formally and
        demonstratively; sometimes, to appropriate or take
        unjustly.
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              Trembling they stand while Jove assumes the throne.
                                                    --Pope.
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              The god assumed his native form again. --Pope.
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     2. To take for granted, or without proof; to suppose as a
        fact; to suppose or take arbitrarily or tentatively.
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              The consequences of assumed principles. --Whewell.
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     3. To pretend to possess; to take in appearance.
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              Ambition assuming the mask of religion. --Porteus.
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              Assume a virtue, if you have it not.  --Shak.
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     4. To receive or adopt.
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              The sixth was a young knight of lesser renown and
              lower rank, assumed into that honorable company.
                                                    --Sir W.
                                                    Scott.
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     Syn: To arrogate; usurp; appropriate.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  assumed
       adj 1: accepted as real or true without proof; "an assumed increase
              in population"; "the assumed reason for his absence";
              "assumptive beliefs"; "his loyalty was taken for
              granted" [syn: {assumptive}, {taken for granted(p)}]
       2: taken as your right without justification; "was hearing
          evidence in an assumed capacity"; "Congress's arrogated
          powers over domains hitherto belonging to the states"
          [syn: {arrogated}]
       3: adopted in order to deceive; "an assumed name"; "an assumed
          cheerfulness"; "a fictitious address"; "fictive sympathy";
          "a pretended interest"; "a put-on childish voice"; "sham
          modesty" [syn: {false}, {fictitious}, {fictive}, {pretended},
           {put on}, {sham}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  108 Moby Thesaurus words for "assumed":
     accepted, accounted as, affected, alleged, apocryphal, artificial,
     assumptive, bastard, bogus, brummagem, chanced, colorable, colored,
     conjectured, counterfeit, counterfeited, deceptive, deemed,
     delusory, distorted, dressed up, dummy, embellished, embroidered,
     ersatz, expected, expropriated, factitious, fake, faked, false,
     falsified, feigned, fictitious, fictive, garbled, given, granted,
     hinted, hypocritical, hypothetical, illegitimate, illusory,
     imitation, implicated, implied, in hand, in process, in progress,
     in the works, indicated, inferred, insubstantial, intimated,
     involved, junky, made-up, make-believe, man-made, meant, mock,
     on the anvil, perverted, phony, pinchbeck, postulated,
     postulational, premised, presumed, presumptive, presupposed,
     pretended, pseudo, put on, put-on, putative, quasi, queer, reputed,
     seized, self-styled, sham, shoddy, simulated, so-called,
     soi-disant, spurious, suggested, supposed, suppositional,
     supposititious, suppositive, synthetic, taken, taken for granted,
     theoretical, tin, tinsel, titivated, twisted, unauthentic,
     under way, understood, undertaken, ungenuine, unnatural, unreal,
     warped