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assumed
CIDE DICTIONARY
assumed, a.
- Supposed. [1913 Webster]
- Pretended; hypocritical; make-believe; as, an assumed character. [1913 Webster]
THESAURUS
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, warpedROGET THESAURUS
assumed
Supposition
N supposition, assumption, assumed position, postulation, condition, presupposition, hypothesis, blue sky hypothesis, postulate, postulatum, theory, thesis, theorem, data, proposition, position, proposal, presumption, divination, conjecture, guess, guesswork, speculation, rough guess, shot, shot in the dark, conjecturality, surmise, suspicion, sneaking suspicion, estimate, approximation (nearness), inkling, suggestion, hint, intimation, notion, impression, bare supposition, vague supposition, loose supposition, loose suggestion, association of ideas, (analogy), metonym, metonymy, simile (metaphor), conceit, idea, thought, original idea, invention (imagination), supposing, given, mooted, postulatory, assumed, supposititious, suppositive, suppositious, gratuitous, speculative, conjectural, hypothetical, theoretical, academic, supposable, presumptive, putative, suppositional, suggestive, allusive, if, if so be, an, on the supposition, ex hypothesi, in the case, in the event of, quasi, as if, provided, perhaps, for aught one knows.For further exploring for "assumed" in Webster Dictionary Online