Assumed

Definition: Assumed

Assumed

Adjective

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".

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".

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".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "assumed" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Synonyms: Assumed

Misnomer

Nickname, sobriquet, by-name; assumed name, assumed title; alias; nom de course, nom de theatre, nom de guerre, nom de plume; pseudonym, pseudonymy.

Supposition

Noun: supposition, assumption, assumed position, postulation, condition, presupposition, hypothesis, blue sky hypothesis, postulate, postulatum, theory; thesis, theorem; data; proposition, position; proposal; (plan); presumption; (belief); divination.

Adjective: supposing; Verb: given, mooted, postulatory; assumed; Verb: supposititious, suppositive, suppositious; gratuitous, speculative, conjectural, hypothetical, theoretical, academic, supposable, presumptive, putative; suppositional.

Crosswords: Assumed

I always assumed you had sex with your bathers. (Coming to America; writing credit: David Sheffield)

If I didn't say anything, people always assumed the worst. (Fight Club; writing credit: Jim Uhls)

I just naturally I assumed that it was any of my business. (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge)

I assumed that you'd be scared and I'd be sarcastic about it! (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer)

On the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much - the wheel, New York, wars, and so on - whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. (The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy; writing credit: Douglas Adams; John Lloyd)

Assumed you'd always be there ("One Sweet Day"; performing artist: Boyz II Men/Mariah Carey)

Assumed Innocence (1990)

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Books

• Assumed Identity (reference)

• Assumed Name (Discoveries) (reference)

• Collaboration Uncovered: The Forgotten, the Assumed, and the Unexamined in Collaborative Education (reference)

• Incognito: 3 Plays Under Assumed Names (reference)

• Negro-Mania: Examination of the Falsely Assumed Equality of the Various Races of Men (reference)

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Lt. Col. Kenneth Dressel speaks during a ceremony here Oct 10 at which he assumed command of the 49th Flying Training Squadron. The unit moved that day from Columbus AFB, Miss., becoming part of Moody's 479th Flying Training Group. The FTG reactivated at.

His face assumed a deadly pallor -- the paper was a blank. Credit: Library of Congress.

Old school in Akins, Oklahoma. This town was formerly a cotton ginning center as well as trading center for the surrounding farm community. There is no ginning done there now and it has assumed the status of a ghost town. Credit: Library of Congress.

Wanted : information leading to the accounting of over 1300 men missing in action & those assumed captured. Credit: Library of Congress.

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In contact with German social conditions, this French literature lost all its immediate practical significance, and assumed a purely literary aspect. (reference)

The method of discharging the obligation, both in respect of capital and of interest, so assumed shall be fixed by the Reparation Commission. (reference)

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You have, in fact, assumed that they took the same time on the level that they took in ascending the hill.

For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much - the wheel, New York, wars and so on - whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time.

The counterfeits of the past take assumed names, and are fond of calling themselves the future.

It surprised him to see that the play which he had known at rehearsals for a disjointed lifeless thing had suddenly assumed a life of its own.

Whether they or their judges had any part in penning those laws which they assumed the liberty of interpreting and glossing upon at their pleasure.

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Health

Those services not tested may be assumed to be ineffective. (references)

Most physicians assumed that AD dementia was merely an inevitable consequence of aging. (references)

Until recently, most researchers assumed that the physical forces of spinal cord trauma immediately tear axons. (references)

Business

Beijing assumed the China seat in the United Nations in 1971 and became increasingly active in multilateral organizations. (references)

Imports are assumed to be very significant or even the main source of supply for the Polish plastic processing machinery market. (references)

Information technology is one of the most rapidly growing industry sectors and has assumed a strategic role in the support and improvement of business practices. (references)

Children

Peru

Among those who do, many have been channeled into occupations traditionally assumed to be "suitable" for persons with disabilities, such as telephone switchboard operation and massage, in the case of the blind. (references)

Argentina

However, under the Law of Patronato, those accused of a crime who are between the ages of 16 and 18 are taken before a judge and assumed guilty of the crime, without the benefit of either an oral or written trial. (references)

Russia

A complex and cumbersome system was developed to manage the life-long institutionalization of some children; three different ministries (Education, Health, and Labor and Social Development) assumed responsibility for different age groups and categories of orphans. (references)

Civil Liberties

Russia

The Interior Ministry assumed responsibility for migration policy and the care of IDP's. (references)

Iraq

In September Uday Hussein reportedly had assumed control of the satellite television service. (references)

Bangladesh

In August, after the nonpartisan caretaker Government had assumed office, Azam traveled to London. (references)

Economic History

Cambodia

Lon Nol deposed Prince Sihanouk and assumed power. (references)

Sri Lanka

In 1970, Mrs. Bandaranaike again assumed the premiership. (references)

Pakistan

Mohammad Ayub Khan assumed control of a military dictatorship. (references)

Human Rights

Fiji

Consequently, the CCF assumed a higher profile in human rights issues during that period. (references)

Cuba

The State has assumed the right to interfere in the lives of citizens, even those who do not oppose the Government and its practices actively. (references)

Lithuania

It is assumed widely that law enforcement agencies have increased the use of a range of surveillance methods to cope with the expansion of organized crime. (references)

Minorities

Netherlands

The survey assumed that many incidents were not reported. (references)

Political Economy

URUGUAY

These are fixed in relation to international levels and in line with commitments assumed under the WTO. (references)

EGYPT

The relationship with the Fund and the Egyptian government has since assumed a consultative aspect only. (references)

Political Rights

Malaysia

In May 2000, Tan Sri Doctor Zeti assumed the post of Central Bank Governor. (references)

Russia

After President Yeltsin's December 1999 resignation, Vladimir Putin assumed the post of acting President. (references)

Angola

In 1998 UNITA officials assumed 4 ministerial and 7 vice-ministerial positions, and 70 UNITA deputies took their seats. (references)

Trade

Pakistan

The Bank has also assumed a new role as a catalyst for development. (references)

Nicaragua

Banco de Finanzas (BDF) assumed BANCAFE's good portfolio in a similar deal. (references)

Vietnam

In general, it may be assumed that an enterprise may need to have 'rights' to access foreign currency. (references)

Travel

Honduras

An international consortium led by San Francisco Airport recently won a 20-year concession to manage the four airports, with operational control assumed on October 1, 2000. (references)

Women

Rwanda

Since the 1994 genocide, which left numerous women as heads of households, women have assumed a larger role in the modern sector, and many run their own businesses. (references)

Worker Rights

Palau

It generally is assumed that legislators specifically exempted contract workers in the 1998 minimum wage bill to ensure a continued supply of low cost labor in industries that the legislators often control. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "assumed": assumed arithmetic mean ♦ assumed bond ♦ assumed idle ♦ assumed mean ♦ assumed name ♦ reinsurance assumed ♦ under an assumed name. Additional references.

Ending with "assumed": already-assumed, long-assumed, Self-assumed.

Albanian

i supozuar (alleged, conjectural, expected, hypothetic, presumptive, putative, reputed, supposed), i pavërtetë (false). (various references)

Arabic 

‏مفترض (given, presumed, presupposed, supposed), ‏متكلف (affected, artificial, constrained, factitious, faked, false, feigned, forced, mannered, overacted, put on, sham, stagy, stilted, stogie, strained, theatrical, unnatural), ‏متصنع (affected, artificial, mannered, overacted, phony, sham, simulated, stagy, strained, theatrical, unnatural), ‏مظنون (imagined). (various references)

Bulgarian 

предположен, допуснат (allowed). (various references)

Chinese 

假设 (Assume, Assuming, hypothesize, Postulate, Postulated, Postulating, suppose, Supposing). (various references)

Czech

předpokládaný (hypothetical, notional, presumed, reputed, supposed), hraný (studied), domnìlý (alleged, fancied, imaginary, presumptive, supposed). (various references)

Danish

antaget middelværdi (assumed mean), aliasnavne (assumed name), accepteret reassurance (reinsurance assumed), ikke-betydende nuller (leading zeros, zeros preceding the first non-zero integer of a number.May be employed in the numeric fields of numerical control input blocks to indicate the assumed position of the decimal point within the field), hypotetisk reserve (assumed reserve, hypothetical reserve), forudsatte vaerste uheld (worst assumed accident), det maa antages,at dette temperaturomraade er blevet en smule overskredet,saaledes at en uforholdsmaessig vaekst af karbiderne er indtruffet (it is assumed that this temperature range was slightly exceeded so taht the carbides are coarser than usual), det er sandsynligt,at disse afrundede korn er begyndelsen af sigmafaseudskillelsen,og at de omgivende traadformede krystaller bestaar af TiC (and the surrounding threadlike preciprtates consrst of TiC, it is assumed that these round particles are the start of the formation of sigma-phase), det antages,at krystallisationen af stavene muligvis har taget sit udgangspunkt paa en dislokationslinie i ferritgitteret (it is assumed that possibly the precipitation of the ribs began at a dislocation line in the ferrite lattice), brugslast (assumed loading, design loading, imposed load). (various references)

Dutch

alias (alias, otherwise, otherwise called), aangenomen wordt dat de uitscheiding van de staafjes is begonnen op een dislocatielijn in het ferrietrooster (it is assumed that possibly the precipitation of the ribs began at a dislocation line in the ferrite lattice), aangenomen naam (assumed name), waarschijnlijke voorraad (assumed reserve, hypothetical reserve), waarschijnlijk is dit temperatuurgebied iets overschreden zodat de carbiden grover zijn dan normaal is (it is assumed that this temperature range was slightly exceeded so taht the carbides are coarser than usual), voornul (leading zeros, zeros preceding the first non-zero integer of a number.May be employed in the numeric fields of numerical control input blocks to indicate the assumed position of the decimal point within the field), voorlopig gemiddelde (assumed mean), verondersteld gemiddelde (assumed mean), ontwerpbelasting (assumed loading, design loading), niet-significante nul (insignificant zero, leading zeros, unsignificant zero, zeros preceding the first non-zero integer of a number.May be employed in the numeric fields of numerical control input blocks to indicate the assumed position of the decimal point within the field), in herverzekering ontvangen verzekering (reinsurance assumed), het is mogelijk dat deze ronde kristallen het begin van de sigma-fase zijn en de omringende naaldvormige insluitsels uit TiC-carbiden bestaan (and the surrounding threadlike preciprtates consrst of TiC, it is assumed that these round particles are the start of the formation of sigma-phase), gefingeerde winst (apparent profit, assumed profit, fictitious profit), geaccepteerde herverzekering (reinsurance assumed), fictieve winst (apparent profit, assumed profit, fictitious profit). (various references)

Finnish

salanimi (assumed name). (various references)

French

affecté, supposé (assumptive), présumé (assumptive). (various references)

German

angenommen (accepted, adopted, adoptive, assuming, assumptive, imbibed, notional, presuming, supposing, suppositional, understood), vorausgesetzt (implied, preconditioned, presumed, provided, provided that). (various references)

Greek 

υποθετικόσ (conditional, conjectural, hypothetic, hypothetical, presumptive, suppositional), ψευδώνυμο (alias, nom de plume, pen name, penname, pseudonym). (various references)

Hungarian

tettetett (affected, false, feigned, insincere, pretended). (various references)

Indonesian

sok, berlagak. (various references)

Italian

affettato (affected, Dandy, euphuistic, finical, foppish, genteel, labored, laboured, mincing, niminy-piminy, pretty-pretty, prim, prissy, sliced). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

仮 (acting, fleeting, informal, interim, provisional, temporary, tentative, unauthorized). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

かり (acting, borrowing, clip, cut, debt, fleeting, hunting, informal, interim, loan, lower official, potash, potassium, provisional, prune, reap, shear, temporary, trim, unauthorized, wild goose). (various references)

Korean 

�"측하�". (various references)

Pig Latin

assumeday

Portuguese

adotado (adopted, adoptee), suposto (pretended, reputed, seeming, self-styled, so-called, supposed, suppositional, supposititious, would-be), simulado (artful, counterfeit, double, dummy, feigned, make-believe, mock, pretended, sham, simulate, simulated, spurious), hipotético (assumptive, hypothetical, suppositional), fingido (artificial, cattish, double, faked, false, feigned, forced, insincere, make-believe, pretended, sham, supposititious), fictício (bogus, fairy, fictitious, make-believe, unreal), falso (apocryphal, artificial, bastard, bogus, brummagem, buckram, cammed, canting, counterfeit, deceitful, double-dealing, double-faced, double-tongued, dummy, erroneous, faked, false, flash, hollow-hearted, imitation, insincere, lying, mendacious, mock, off-key, ostensible, painted, phoney, phony, pinchbeck, pretended, professed, self-styled, shifty, shoddy, simulated, sklent, slippery, slippy, snaky, snide, so-called, spurious, supposititious, traitorous, treacherous, truthless, two-faced, two-tongued, unfair, untrue, untrustworthy, wrong). (various references)

Romanian

atribuit, asumat, admis (accepted, acknowledged, received), acceptat (accredited, received), simulat (feigned, feint, mimic, seeming), prefãcut (affected, cattish, false, falsified, forged, guileful, histrionic, hollow-hearted, hypocritical, insidious, mock, panting, pecksniffian, pharisaical, pharisee, pretender, seeming, sham, squeamish, treacherous), ipotetic (conjectural, hypothetic, hypothetical, hypothetically, presumptive), fictiv (bogus, dummy, fictional, fictitious, fictitiously, fictive, sham, unreal). (various references)

Russian 

вымышленный (fictional, fictitious, fictive, romantic), допускаемый (assumptive). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

tobožnji (ostensibly, pretended, quasi, supposed, would be), lažan (apocryphal, counterfeit, dummy, factitious, fake, faked, false, feigned, lying, mock, phoney, phony, pseudo, reprobate, sham, spurious, supposititious, untruthful). (various references)

Spanish

fingido (bogus, dissembled, feigned, make believe, mimic, mock, pretended, professed, sham, simulated, unction), ficticio (bogus, dummy, fictional, fictitious, made up, sham, untrue). (various references)

Swedish

fingerad (bogus, fictitious, mock, sham). (various references)

Turkish

takma (artificial, attachable, by-, bye-, false, postiche, pseudo-), farzedilen (putative, reputed). (various references)

Ukrainian

удаваний (affected, artificial, counterfeit, feigned, hypocrite, make believe, mock, obvious, ostensible, ostensive, pretended, professed, put on, seeming, shoddy, simulate, studied, supposed, well-affected, would be), вигаданий (airy, fabled, feigned, fictional, fictitious, make believe, mythic, mythical), несправжний, присво�"ний, передбачуваний (assumptive, calculable, constructive, estimated, intended, reputative, supposed), допустимий (admissible, affordable, allowable, dispensable, entertainable). (various references)

Vietnamese 

l� m ra vẻ (seeming), không có thật được mệnh danh l� đúng, giả bô giả, được thừa nhận (recognized), được cho l� đúng (assumptive). (various references)

tacitus. (various references)

Derivations

Words ending with "assumed": coassumed, reassumed. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Assumed" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: acumed, aksumite, asome, assuie, Assuied, assum, assumend, assuse, asum, asume, Atsumi, awsume, Kassum, Massonde, Sassanid. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: medusas.

-1 letter: amused, amuses, assume, massed, medusa, mussed, sedums.

-2 letters: amuse, assed, dames, dumas, masse, mauds, meads, mesas, mused, muses, sades, seams, sedum.

-3 letters: amus, dame, dams, dues, duma, emus, made, mads, maes, mass, maud, mead, mesa, mess, muds, muse, muss, sade, same, seam, seas, suds, sued, sues, sums, used, uses.

-4 letters: ads, amu, ass, dam.

+1 letter: medusans.

+2 letters: coassumed, madhouses, muscadels, muscadets, reassumed.

+3 letters: admeasures, ambuscades, feudalisms, housemaids, mandamuses, muscadines, nursemaids, subsampled, summarised.

+4 letters: adjustments, ambuscaders, desquamates, deutoplasms, dissimulate, mansuetudes, masquerades, misadjusted, miseducates, mundaneness, musicalised, praesidiums, pseudomonas, simulcasted, stomodaeums, submediants, unassembled.

+5 letters: adventurisms, dissimulated, dissimulates, dreamfulness, eudaemonisms, eudaemonists, eudaimonisms, gourmandises, groundmasses, guesstimated, masculinised, masqueraders, misguidances, pseudomonads, somersaulted, succedaneums, sulfonamides, superstardom.