EGAVE

assumed

Academic Word List, sublist 1.

About 43.98 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. verb simple past and past participle of assume
  2. adjective Used in a manner intended to deceive; pretended; simulated.
  3. adjective Supposed or presumed.

Similar words

pretended sham counterfeit fictitious arrogated fictive acknowledged imitative assumptive false

Often followed by

that to the a by in for as an

Word family

assume assumedly assumes assuming assumption assumptions

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